“If only your arms were green, you could have two small lawns!” Ron Padgett
i’ve
been
in here i don’t fit in
new
york
took me about a week i don’t know
where
i don’t see people
and occasionally fail
as
a
person because i
don’t
see people who are
obsessed by
their
lives are
like i don’t fit
in
here i don’t
know i don’t
know
where i
had totally failed
as a person because
i had to
recover from
the delusion i failed as a person because
i don’t know where i had my
photo taken
i don’t know where
i don’t
see people who are like i don’t know i
don’t see people and
it took
me about about a
week i don’t
see people who are like i don’t
see
people
Sources:
Moshfegh, Ottessa, and Kristine McKenna. Certain Age.
Harper’s Magazine Foundation, May 2016. Web. 27 Apr. 2016.
Padgett, Ron. "Survivor Guilt." Best American Poetry 2015.
Eds. Sherman Alexie and David Lehman. New York: Scribner, 2015. 106-107. Print.
