[The dead girl by the beautiful Bartlett]

By Joshua Beckman b. 1971 Joshua Beckman

The dead girl by the beautiful Bartlett.

I'm sad. I make horrible sentences.

A woman alone in the park waves. The water.

The dead girl by the beautiful Bartlett.

Put down the cell phone. I'm sad. The waves.

The horrible staring. A woman alone

in the park. Waves. The leaves. Leaves

along in the park. I'm staring. The

dead girl by the beautiful Bartlett. I'm sad.

Put down your cell phone. A wave.

The sad girl alone in the park. Leaves.

Put down your cell phone. The Bartlett.

The staring. A leaf alone in the horrible

leaves. The dead girl. The staring.

Source: Shake (Wave Books, 2006)

Biography

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and attended Hampshire College. An editor at Wave Books, he is the author of Things Are Happening (1998), winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Award, Something I Expected to Be Different (2001), Your Time Has Come (2001), Shake (2006), and Take It (2009). He has also collaborated with Matthew Rohrer on the book Nice Hat. Thanks (2002) and the CD Adventures While Preaching the . . .

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