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There Go My Sponsors
by Matthew Byrne   

Be someone I’m not was

all I had to do, a conduit

to plenitude, a human

platitude.  My sponsors

retreat like frightened

phalluses, saving faces,

inversion incorporated. 

They cannot evacuate

fast enough, their eyes

avert my pariah’s glare,

brushing by my despair.

All I had to do was keep up

appearances, not get it up

for waitresses.  Farewell  

another sponsor, arcing

across the twinkling sky,

I huddled by a makeshift

fire on the rocks I’ve run

aground from the sirens’

silky song.  I have fallen

on my head for getting it

in too many strange places,

an icon self-dismantled

by its irrepressible come-

ons.  But you’ll be back

someday, I will win your

amnesiac wallets again.

The dust and I will settle,

reentering your vacancy.



Matthew Byrne's poetry has appeared in The Best American Poetry 2007, The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, and others. He serves as vice president at an insurance agency in Chicago.  

 

 
Slurve Magazine (c) 2010

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