Sadness is
another word
For sacred.

I like sadness.
Sadness and
melancholy.

Had a baby,
a baby with
fucking rabies,

and they named
it after me.
Me!

Wish I could
be a
Los Angelino,

but I
am just
lost.

Beyond Boston
in a small
coffin,

a
Low cost
coffin.

It doesn’t
cost much
to live my life.

Just
medicate a
sideshow clown.

Give him
a name, a dog,
a wife.

A baby,
a house,
a Hyundai.

Books
that speak
to him.

Poems with
nothing
to say.

Let clouds
rush into his
sideshow veins

and
oxidize
loneliness.

Let him watch
life pass
him by

as princess
after princess
leave fingerprints

on what could
have been
a lovely life.

Sunshine baby,
shine on me.
I don’t even exist.

 

Jason Wright is the editor and founder of Oddball Magazine. His column appears weekly. His third book, Train of Thought 2: Almost Home is available now at the Oddball Book Store.