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This World Has Walls II

By Miles Mikofsky

Stay in bed till
three pm
My underpants – dead elastic
Deli cheese and seltzer
Because the                     progress
of                                 a sentence
makes         me                     anxious

Rainy days, sick days – Given
the limitations –          Praise!
This box life –
The falcon
will not leave its hood – Knock out
every powerline

By four thirty there is a rosy
spin on time – dizzy head – Even
the dust, the least,          glows

What’s to come? Consult my modern auguries:

the gyre of clothes in a dryer

Pornhub random button

the ad for what you just said

patterns deep in white noise

 

Miles Mikofsky is a writer and student currently on leave from the University of Chicago. He is a recipient of the Lamont Younger Poets Prize (2017) and his work can be found in Subnivean and Sliced Bread Magazine. Miles lives in Troy, NY.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue 22

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