Photography © Edward S. Gault

 

Humans

The café where I no longer go.
The few rest-
aurants still
open? Situated
by dead dim
storefronts—
Do you live in
that fucked
up town any-
more? Poet
O’
so controversial.

The buffoons
‘ll band
against you.
Hold your
hope firm,
my friend.
—Pops has
something
to tell you.
What does
he intend…
to
do?
So,
the modern world
bleeds. &
people are
depraved.
They
sip cool aid,
in little cups
thinking it’ll cure their sins.

 

Seth A. Howard is the author of Out of the East, and Waters from a Well, two experimental chapbooks. His work has appeared in Otoliths, BlazeVOX [books], unarmed journal, Big Hammer, Oddball Magazine, Chronogram, Saudade, and Elephant. He graduated from the University of Connecticut, & attended Sophia University in Tokyo for three years. In his spare time, he enjoys the practice of Zazen, watches J-drama, & studies French in New London where he resides.

Edward S. Gault is a poet and fine art photographer. He lives at Mosaic Commons, a co-housing community in Berlin, Ma. He has a wife Karen, and daughter.