April 6, 2024 Poetry

ADOLES-NO-SENSE

Artwork by DALL·E

  

pheromonal?
 
Zeusian grok:
outa (I thought) 
lotta blue sky
 
a lightning bolt
surprises you
distracts radar
 
from what I
had presumed
an ability to
 
navigate these
worlds well
not dependent 
 
on any [fe]
male because
had learned
 
just how cope
with nature
but suddenly
 
ex-bod sure
changes fast as
are Gerard’s
 
new interests
in our now
way fairer sex
 
at least so
my consensus 
seemingly
 
infinite voices
in head try
to convince me
 
…+ if others
must know one
was odd god


Drunk Loco Parentis
 
I am 17 when sun
of my life is born 
& the two of us
(father Jeraldo 
+ son) are now 
grown uppity
...all together
also alone… 
‘cause both 
his mother 
as well as 
dad died
in a car
crash.

Gerard Sarnat

Gerard Sarnat MD’s won prizes/authored four collections; published by Gargoyle, Oberlin, Dartmouth, Penn, Columbia, Brown, Stanford, Harvard, Main Street Rag, New Delta Review, Buddhist Poetry Review, Vonnegut Journal, Texas Review, Brooklyn Review, LA Review, San Francisco Magazine, New York Times.

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Website: http://gerardsarnat.com

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