Ed Madden
On the other hand
My friend Agata posts that she’s
in a coffee shop and she is
unable to work because the baristas
are talking about Donald Trump
fulfilling biblical prophesies and being
the hand of god. I wanted to ask
if it’s the pussy-grabbing hand,
she says, or a different one,
but I applied my social filter.
On the other hand, she posted
a few moments later, there’s
suspense. A guy is going to propose.
And he asked the baristas to take
a photo of the girl when she
arrives, a photo when he asks
for her hand.
Ed Madden is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Ark (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016), a memoir in verse about caring for his father in his last months of living with cancer. His chapbook, So they can sing, won the 2016 Robin Becker Poetry Prize and is out this fall from Seven Kitchens Press.
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