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Absolutely Revolting
Poem

'Cobwebs' a poem by Tracy Ryan

by Tracy Ryan •
May 2010, no. 321

Always an afterthought, last thing left
in that mad dash to spit and polish
before visitors – rare here, so I forget
how others might read you if they looked up:
weird residue of disuse, proof of slackness, antisocial.

 


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