Girlwithcat2.jpg
By Ben Fama
I found you
on Gothtrash.com
and saved your picture
to my computer desktop
it gives me the feeling
of something terrible
and familiar
a space
between lives
like seeing Marcel
seeing Gilberte
for the first time
how the fact of life itself
becomes a thing
languished and melancholy
I think I would like to lie
among southern magnolias
in snowfall
dark skies above
into which
I will never enter
I'm watching Maya Deren
maybe I will smoke weed
I called out sick
it's the afternoon
Copyright Credit: Ben Fama, "Girlwithcat2.jpg" from Fantasy. Copyright © 2015 by Ben Fama. Reprinted by permission of Ugly Duckling Presse.
Source: Fantasy (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)