“We Are the Sack” © Sketchman Boris

 

Maw

All holidays
go out into
same hole.

Plastic not
set apart from
good intent.

Everything
Now becomes
Never Enough.

Disappointment
always checked
off of list.

Expectations
unmet, placed
back in closet.

Lessons stuck
way in back,
no one recalls.

 

Chad Parenteau is Associate Editor of Oddball Magazine.

Sketchman Boris is a cartoonist who does comic strips and aspires to create stories and publish more books than what he has published so far.