Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
Smalljones@triangletoot.party ("Smalljones aka Paul Jones") wrote:
[...]
Twenty-two. Nothing to do.
New York had vanished,
Connecticut, too.
My students grew hair
and got haircuts, grew hair
and got haircuts, and sang.
I’d lie in bed and masturbate
and wonder why I’d come,
and come and come again
and then rise for some bread and a run.
[...]https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/58004/twenty-two-56d23c01e8ef7