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Disturbing the Inertia, Maybe
I don’t really know the apt word for it
maybe inert
the smoke making a quilt through my beard
’till these two kids
with Velcro shoes and their porno mags
come over the hump behind me—the end of the world
maybe sharp maybe intricate apparitions
or the bending felicity of the suburbs
Maybe inert isn’t the right word maybe dormant
as I leave them to their androgens
I was just staring at the river
through a sewer fence anyways.
Maybe Disturbing the Freedom at my Fingertips
The freedom’s @ my fingertips
as I trip half-consciously
over the rocks beside the river
and I twitch
seeing a bag of Lays potato chips
empty and crumpled
wedged b/w 2 dandelions
I don’t know if
it was really there
this moment of sick surrealism
’cause I didn’t go back
I didn’t really ’wanna
know if it was real or not
anyways.
Michael Meagher Michael Meagher is 21 years old and attends Carleton University in Ottawa, taking English and Philosophy. He has been writing for at least 2 or 3 years,
and is presently working on a novel: He finds that his strength is in his prose. Finally, he has published 2 poems in the magazine, "In Words",
a publication of Carleton University.
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