Automat

Chicken sandwich
widow in a cave
Edward Hopper edible
so lonely
it wants to bite off
a piece of itself
and eat it.

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Nothing More To Say

The stout aunt says,

 His coffin is small.
 He was small.

Heaping upon him
her scoop of dirt.

 

 

Robert Hirschfield is a New York-based poet and writer about poetry. He has been widely published including in Salamander, The Moth, Noon, Haight Ashberry, Literary Journal and The Iconoclast.