POETRY
Melanie Brazzell
buoyant fragments
Begin trying
William Doreski
A Novelist's Eye
Ryan Quinn Flanagan
26 Years
Musings of a Man Impelled to
Moments of Mad Wakefulness
Kristine Ong Muslim
Geek Girl
Caleb Puckett
Meeting by Morning
Call for Exodus
Ross White
Actaeon
A Roman
Benjamin
Nardolilli
Contra Cosmos
I
would like to accuse
The Universe
Of a grand conspiracy against me,
Of setting a joke in motion
Driving from the Big Bang
To be centered at my existence,
With the stars and galaxies
Ready to burst in supernovas
And black holes of laughter
Over the punch-line of my demise,
Set up carefully all these years,
Painful to watch and at times to live,
But I would also like to accuse
The Universe
Of caring, knowing who I am
And having a grand story for me.
The Universe
Of a grand conspiracy against me,
Of setting a joke in motion
Driving from the Big Bang
To be centered at my existence,
With the stars and galaxies
Ready to burst in supernovas
And black holes of laughter
Over the punch-line of my demise,
Set up carefully all these years,
Painful to watch and at times to live,
But I would also like to accuse
The Universe
Of caring, knowing who I am
And having a grand story for me.
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