ADVICE FOR A LONELY FRIEND, NURSING A COLD
Better to take the aspirin
and blow your nose
into a thousand
different tissues
than to fuck your own ass
with your ex-wife’s dildo.
Dave Newman is the author of eleven books, including Dope and Vodka and Cigarettes, and Not Shaving Her Legs (Roadside, 2026), Better Than the Best American Poetry (Roadside Press, 2025), and the essay collection How to Live Like Li Po in Pittsburgh (J.New Book, 2023). He lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley.
