Absence Makes the Heart
Gertrude Stein
Was known to drink
From time to time
A tall glass
Of sparkling water
Because there was
No there
There.
Before the Revolution
Squads of police
Dressed in riot gear
Surround the twisted wreckage
Of our leader’s limousine.
His private jet
Taxis down the runway
Then slowly ascends
Turning towards the west.
Ron Kolm is the author of Divine Comedy, Duke & Jill, Suburban Ambush, A Change in the Weather, Welcome to the Barbecue, Night Shift, Swimming in the Shallow End, The Bookstore Book: A Memoir and The Verities of Love. He’s had work in the Brownstone Poets anthologies, Maintenant, Live Mag!, NYC from the Inside, Public Illumination Magazine, The Red Wheelbarrow, the Riverside Poets, The Café Review and The Opiate. Ron’s papers were purchased by the New York University Library. Arthur Kaye photo.