Red Light Run | Joe Albanese

Maybe I’ve always chosen
the cloth monkey
over
the wire one, tazing
myself with absorption

Maybe I chewed the
apple
straight to the cyanide

Maybe I
queued behind myself,
ouroboros once or twice or
ten times over

Maybe I’m Sisyphus pushing
my own boulder back down
the mountain

Might I follow through with this,
these sotto calls to arms —
just a
red light run
away from where the action is

Let me will away this maybe-deluge past,

turn next times to yeses,
turn me to ours,
am to was,
no to you,
one day – now.

Author : Joe Albanese 

Joe Albanese is a writer from New Jersey. His work can be found in numerous literary magazines across the United States and in six other countries. Joe’s first novel, “Caina,” will be published later in 2018 (Mockingbird Lane Press)

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