by John Sweet
there is a movie or
a tv show
a man who loves a woman he
can never be with
and so the ending is obvious
the ways we choose to waste our lives
are nothing special
but they’re all we have
even in an empty house
i believe this
John Sweet is a believer in writing as catharsis. His poems have appeared in such venues as Strange Horizons and New Aesthetic. His latest collections include Bastard Faith (Scars Publications, 2017) and Heathen Tongue (Kendra Steiner Editions, 2018). You can visit his website by clicking here.