January 18, 2017 1 Comment
when the Pulitzer Prize
winning poet paused
to take a sip
from his glass of water
the old man struggled
and the plastic black straw
slid up his nose
and the wealthy white women
giggled mercilessly
Sean Lynch is a writer and editor who lives in South Philly. Lynch's first book of poems, the city of your mind, was published in 2013 by Whirlwind Press. His second chapbook, Broad Street Line, focusing on politics and public transportation, was published by Moonstone Press in 2016. 100 Haiku is his latest release, also published by Moonstone Press in 2018. Lynch's writing has been featured in numerous publications online and in print, including (parenthetical), Poetry Quarterly, and Tincture Journal.
Those wealthy white women–and so many of us have to depend on them.
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