by Christian Mahoney
I’m thinking of going to
Barnes and Noble with
one of my chapbooks
and putting it next to
Céline.
Next to Thompson or
Bukowski.
I’ll just leave it in there.
Maybe someone will
find it before the store
goes bankrupt.
Maybe it will fall into a
liquidation sale.
Come to think of it,
where did you find this
poem?
Christian Mahoney is a writer from Cape Cod and editor of On the Dole Magazine. His work is bleak, surreal, and deadpan, circling alcoholism, poverty, and the small violences of ordinary life. His poetry has appeared in Azarão Lit Journal and Shadow & Sax. His debut chapbook, The Telephone’s Out of Cigarettes, is available on Amazon.