Jonathan Greene 10/27/26 Jonathan Greene 10/27/26

Unhandy

I can’t put together anything from IKEA
because I don’t have the time to read
pantomiming in print with arrows showing
me how to make go completely insane

Jonathan Greene 10/20/26 Jonathan Greene 10/20/26

Spilled

and then I look back
at my soul puddle
and realize that
all of my hopes
and dreams might
just be at the bottom
of the Heinz ketchup

Jonathan Greene 10/12/26 Jonathan Greene 10/12/26

Sandwich

When I hear the word sandwich, sometimes
I think of myself being stuck between two
people on the subway and not knowing
which of them keeps farting because neither
has lifted their leg or made any indication
that they were the flatulent train rider

Jonathan Greene 10/2/26 Jonathan Greene 10/2/26

Group Text

But distance strings us out on the
end of what used to be a corded
phone line, and we react when pinged
to the evermore of each person’s
discombobulated happenstance

Jonathan Greene 9/27/26 Jonathan Greene 9/27/26

Nothing

Sometimes you have to
fold in on yourself and
curl into a small ball
in an oversized blanket
and just sleep into it

Jonathan Greene 9/6/26 Jonathan Greene 9/6/26

Watching a Lion Do Cartwheels

I don’t know where I fall
as I watch myself idle
through life with that
weighted vest you saw
on Amazon on my back

Jonathan Greene 8/21/26 Jonathan Greene 8/21/26

Inclination

So, I lay down on a chaise
with a book of fiction
to imbibe someone else’s
life of bold grandeur
inside my inactivity

Jonathan Greene 8/16/26 Jonathan Greene 8/16/26

Grabbing At Air

I walk aimlessly
to drumbeat my
inexorable grief
and I always end
up back where I
started; home

Jonathan Greene 8/7/26 Jonathan Greene 8/7/26

Another Version of Myself

Hair grows out of my
ear like a cornstalk
and I barely care
because tweezers
are man’s enemy

Jonathan Greene 8/4/26 Jonathan Greene 8/4/26

Scratch the Bird

My left sock with
a gaping hole
is the air I need

I’ve been trying
my whole life to
scratch the bird

Jonathan Greene 8/3/26 Jonathan Greene 8/3/26

Pockets

Sometimes, I like to store
my emotion in a shirt
pocket because then
I can take it out and
look at it before I throw
it into a street gutter

Jonathan Greene 7/29/26 Jonathan Greene 7/29/26

Tantamount

But my disdain is tantamount
to a horse-drawn carriage
running over your left foot
while you are wearing Crocs
and trying to balance a
cocktail umbrella on the tip
of your broken finger

Jonathan Greene 7/19/26 Jonathan Greene 7/19/26

Coursework

My coursework is human trudgery
as I push my meat sack through
each day’s personal thermometer

Jonathan Greene 7/11/26 Jonathan Greene 7/11/26

Languid

Hand splayed over the side of the couch
Lukewarm Earl Grey just out of reach
The book I love has fallen to the ground
and my body caves into the pillows

Jonathan Greene 7/10/26 Jonathan Greene 7/10/26

Making Copies

Look in the trash can
over at the edge of
the parking lot and you
will find the remnants
of me making copies

Jonathan Greene 7/8/26 Jonathan Greene 7/8/26

Through the Window

The clouds move
The trees sway
Aaron picks up dog shit
and the world tumbles by
through the window