What Rough Beast | Poem for April 15, 16, & 17, 2017

There were different ways of consuming the same content and some of the ways of consuming the content were nourishing and some were not and as long as you consumed the content in ways that were nourishing you lived but if you consumed the content in ways that were not nourishing you died and soon all of the content that was available in nourishing form had been consumed and the only content that was left was in the form that was not nourishing and people began to starve

 

Michael Broder is the author of Drug and Disease Free (Indolent Books, 2016) and This Life Now (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), a finalist for the 2015 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. He holds a BA from Columbia University, an MFA from New York University, and a PhD in Classics from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Broder lives in Brooklyn with his husband, the poet Jason Schneiderman, and a backyard colony of stray and feral cats.

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