The stroller loses a wheel
and scrapes to a halt,
lisping its advertised versatility,
not as a full-sized travel system
that can convert from
an infant car seat carrier
to a toddler stroller,
but as a timebomb
that can explode softly
and cast a scratchy cough
through the bars
of the lion exhibit,
which does nothing
in terms of resuscitating
the gutted costumes
smeared like peanut butter
across the crabgrass.
Best of the Net nominee, Rich Glinnen, has had his poetry featured on Rich Vos’s and Bonnie McFarlane’s podcast My Wife Hates Me, and is a mainstay at the Nuyorican Poets Café. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. He currently has two cats, two kids, and one wife.
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