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a poem after connecting the dots

By Joe NastaPublished 4 years ago Updated 2 years ago 1 min read

Maybe you can come up with something new

or maybe tweet the same three things every day

until a stranger comments, “Are you talking

to yrself?” I’m even younger than you were

in that photo you, yr twenty-ninth birthday,

cigarette hanging out of yr mouth & leather crown.

I swear this is the first time I’ve done this

(looked at yr Tumblr) in five long years.

It’s up to you what happens next.

Previously published in Dude - Note in a Bottle 13

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Joe Nasta

literary editor at large, American Poetry’s Sweetest Troublemaker, reputed champion of the underground, kind friend please make me happy :)

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    Written by Joe Nasta