Facts by Gregory Sherl
Facts
Everyone is getting divorced because of Facebook. Too much water kills people, destroys old family photographs, causes pets to be left in cages while those who can walk flee their underwater homes, their dead-end jobs and high cholesterol breakfasts. Money ain’t cheap. California hates gay people sometimes. Vermont loves gay people but hates streetlights. Florida loves streetlights but hates education. Texas will stick a needle in you if you murder someone white. I don’t know shit about the Carolinas, except South Carolina didn’t want to screen Amistad because they still wave the Confederate flag because heritage sounds a little like heresy and goin’ muddin’ is fun. Valium fucks me up something awful. I love it. Subaru is the state car of Vermont. Racism is the state thought of Alabama. I have lied to doctors to score Vicodin and it was worth it. I’d do it again but my mother would cry. Monsters don’t exist, but I do and birds do and birds are always in poems because poets like to look out of windows because poets are lonely and poor and looking out of windows is free but cable TV is not free and movies are not free unless you sneak in the back entrance while the usher is busy sweeping up the old popcorn. I have never been shot at. Tupac is alive and smoking cigars in Cuba. I have held a gun once and I felt dangerously unsatisfied. Couch cushions get dirty but no one cleans them. I Febreze my underarms, but that’s not true. I am scared to touch doorknobs because I hate having a runny nose. Watching myself sneeze makes me feel like a vampire. How to exit a car that has crashed into a canal: break a lot of windows. Is it possible to get a concussion from thinking too hard?
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Gregory Sherl is the author of Heavy Petting (YesYes Books, 2011), The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail (Mud Luscious Press, 2012), and Monogamy Songs (Future Tense Books, 2012).
Gregory Sherl lives and works in Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Find more about Gregory Sherl at his website.