After cancer
mandible
replacement
I wear
the concave
skull of
Munch’s scream
a far cry from
the witless pretty
Caravaggio
I flaunted
in my pretty
witless youth –
the quick look
look away
cruise I got
back then
I get again –
death the
only magnet
sexier than sex
Paul Genega’s poems appeared most recently in This Broken Shore, Off the Coast, and Tifert Magazine’s “border” issue. A chapbook of recent poems, Moordener Kill, is scheduled for early 2020 by Finishing Line Press. Among his many awards are the Charles Angoff Award from The Literary Review and an individual fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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