The Northville Review
an online literary journal
IF I DON’T HAVE MY OWN HBO ORIGINAL SERIES BY JULY 16TH 2014

Joseph Goosey

I will walk into the Atlantic
and not walk out

which is funny
because living next to an ocean is supposed to be a privilege
but it’s really more similar to having a loaded shotgun in the closet at all times.

In addition my memory suffers indefinitely from itself,
memory. Low tide attracts widows
and high,
owners of expensive mid-size dogs.

My pheromones are dripping with protest a
nd consider the Grecian economy
as a small lizard to be trotted along on a leash.

Blonds,
or blondes,

Macon, GA please
save me from such unqualified excess.

About the author

Joseph Goosey has to pay rent in Jacksonville, Florida but is currently living in an extended stay near Raleigh, North Carolina. To make money he reads court records. Words he's written have and will show up in places.