Rent Control in a War Zone
And that’s
what you get
for always
falling in love
with the tectonics
beneath my bum
get rear ended
she comes
between us
with her sex
our shared Covid
has me driving
12 different kinds
of burrito rigs
where the techies
and Teslas
always double park
always put the fuzz
on the defensive
so now she lives
in my mailbox
centered
like a mandala
compulsive I
always try
to save them
even as she leaves
her husband
for a bartender
a swarthy complexion
a confrontational attitude
the beta keratin in grass
shining, shining
in our eyes
always
Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the Fire Cracker nominated collection Bone Moon Palace from Black Lawrence Press. He is the co-founder and co-director of Collapse Press with Lynn Alexander. He occasionally plays drums with the US Ghostal Service and the There Their They’re.
