gimlets

short poems are nice because they are a way of giving life to all sorts of observations, images and stupid ideas that don't belong anywhere. writing them is like the literary equivalent of head-to-tail eating. don't waste anything. even the offal.

1.

a glass room

has advantages

and disadvantages

2.

follow the sirens

to one of 6 hospitals

in my neighborhood

3.

they talk in Korean

except for the words

"nasal spray"

4.

the laundry on the floor

is not the laundry

just a few of my shirts

5.

smoking hookah

hannah pretends

that she is a dragon

6.

the infinite

is serious

the temporary

is funny

7.

there are too many tall buildings

between me

and my friends

8.

a very strong man

patrols the neighborhood

9.

with peanuts

and some time

i walk to Union Square