nthposition online magazine

approximately this

by rob mclennan

[ poetry - february 06 ]

if i could put you around
my middle finger

id no longer want you

desire marks a paintbrush
of Bizarro-world proportions

we share nothing w/ those people,
except by blood

the long & thick of it

eight generations back, we all
relate

except for them, & them
& perhaps them

one hundred years

they must be new