The Northville Review
an online literary journal
Dear Sir or Madame

Joseph Goosey

What I need you to do
is encase me
within a significant amount
of cellophane

then stand in the room

comb your hair

wipe off your blush
or whatever that is

and pretend as though
there is not a person
encased in cellophane
also
in the room.

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.