Americans are Baffled to Discover People Who Do Not Want To Improve Themselves
There are French cds to listen to
and all six volumes of Proust to read
An exhibit that opened on the 14th
about the work of a great writer
who wrote great letters and
left behind great thought
to make you even better
But still you are sitting there
on that couch,
outside a child screams
a dog barks
and you couldn’t move
if you tried
because deep down inside
you can feel
the slow death
that awaits you
year after year,
each moment clinging to the next
a fact you still,
even after all this time,
can’t believe.
Ally Malinenko has been writing poems and stories for awhile now. Occasionally she gets things published. She is the author of The Wanting Bone (Six Gallery Press) and Lizzy Speare and the Cursed Tomb (Antenna Books).