Everything Crumbles
How everything crumbles
like a cookie, like snow-
men who get too warm.
See the sad faces sitting
in rickety chairs holding
a book of sad poems
read from top to bottom.
The moonlight poems are
the worst. Silence fills every
room in the house. How
the tumblers and bumblers
fall on slippery streets.
They do not cry when their
bottoms bruise up in the
cold Polar-like pavement.
How everything crumbles
like a cookie, like snow-
men who get too warm.
See the sad faces sitting
in rickety chairs holding
a book of sad poems
read from top to bottom.
The moonlight poems are
the worst. Silence fills every
room in the house. How
the tumblers and bumblers
fall on slippery streets.
They do not cry when their
bottoms bruise up in the
cold Polar-like pavement.
Luis is the author of Make the Water Laugh (Rogue Wolf Press, 2020) and eight chapbooks from Kendra Steiner Editions, including Make the Light Mine (2016). Recent poems have been in or accepted by Ariel Chart, Blue Collar Review, Escape Into Life, and Otoliths. He lives in California and works in the mental health field in Los Angeles.
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