A Poem is a Time Machine
where
you can be young forever
in
this one i am 28 & only slightly overweight
& when cancer chases me down the street
it
just can’t catch up
a
group of young people
sit
on a stranger’s porch
& drunkenly look up at the sky
& i almost forget i’m one of them
& god toledo really is magic
& girls don’t look at me
like
i’m a carnival act with one eye
nicole
places her fingers in mine
& brian stands by the punch bowl inside
still
alive & laughing
& when i think of my luck
just
to have lived
in
this moment
i
laugh too.
John Dorsey is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, MO. He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems: 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022, and Pocatello Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023). He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.
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