non-zero-sum

non-zero-sum

Copyright © Jack Galmitz

Impress 2015

New York, New York

non-zero-sum

Jack Galmitz

The room fullof cardboard boxesempty

The first day of fall-I walk with a cane nowbut I'm still in the world

I shake the camerato capture waves of light

it's an autumn night

While they're in the airlisten to the leaves falling

there

A mushroom cloudrising in the distance

iphones steady

At night you passa building with one light on

so you invent god

I like to think of blueas October

as you

Big treeyou've been with mefrom the beginning

A glass vase

holds a warped table

& a white rose

Every Sunday

at the sea

there’s a sermon

The music boxturns my head

again

Pounding dustfrom the couch

love

The dog was named Spotand he could run

and he owned a gun

A streetof fiery leavesmood swings

We substitutethat tree

with this tree

After 3 million yearsa fern grows here

I feel like I'm being followed

by a dragonfly

The Night of the Cicadasthe building collapses

exposing the apartments

At the rectoryunder the bare bulb

two men shooting up

Shaping steelwith a blowtorch

till it spills

The terrorof t.v. static

has me on pills

He walked by nightin black and white

and robbed passersby

Swimmingin the ponda few stars

Heavenhere

in the dirt

Without interiorsAmerican movie starsare comic book actors

The organ grinderhas to sell his monkey

to the University