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Liquid Chalk

By Charles Kell
Fall 2021 | Poetry

I was at a bus stop

in Newark wishing

to die,

             leaning against

a falling lamppost.

Newark is nice in November.

I was on the bus

for hours I love riding in circles

glass pressing against

my cheek.

O how each person

is traveling to or from

O how each person is busy writing

the book of life.

                          Please, if

this is not Newark point me

someplace else

                        I have been alive

for forty years and don’t know

where I am going

Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, chosen by Kimiko Hahn for the 2018 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize.


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