A Poem By Ben Purkert

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take Coke Zero my white Apple
charger this Old Grand-dad
logo with its hair line     sunken
eyes hey & give hot potato
skins a whirl     they're good
lunch conversation but just skins
in the end & you can only
dance so long around
something     till it dissolves
in Zero most likely yes
you'll be sipping on     a glass
if you want ice please call
for rocks     please sit back &
that glow off the TV
is kinda making you famous
it's honestly making
your head     overshadow
the far wall & everyone knows
today's celebrities are only
caught dead in Italian
labels     they wear their faces so
loose in full sun



Ben Purkert’s poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Denver Quarterly. He’s currently completing his first manuscript, One Good.

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