Poem of the Day
Study of Children
By Asha Futterman
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
did you know
that you all work for me?
I asked them as a joke
Don’t worry.
We have armies
of showrunners
No lie!
Need input!
Not ghosting you!
Let Scott equal “I.”
Scott says, “I
asked my team
to pull your records.”
Unlikely,
the homelife
of water
We wanted to tell someone everything
(or everyone something)—
how large and limp
the leaves were
in the half-sun,
but what is “half-sun,”
finally?
More than a fistful
of stubby green fingers
pushing up through gravel.
With us, it’s about
choices.
How many kinds
These X rays prove what we probably knew, my lady,
my love. Namely, the heart is a muscle for pumping blood,
The old guitar with its broken neck, bowled over
by the cat, we said. Six tangled strings,
Because of your own natural sense of death,
death's stench in the fur, in the follicles, sweat glands,