Marie Kazalia: poem
NO ELVIS SIGHTINGS
instead I encounter
Pablo Picasso eating lunch
a drunk Gertrude Stein
Jean Cocteau asking for spare change
and Marcel Duchamp
with William Burroughs
faced-off across a chess board
in a park-
and I look & dress
something like a middle-aged Mina Loy
Marie Kazalia's poetry and fiction have appeared in Anthology, Arnazella, Asspants, Atom Mind, Aura Literary Arts Review,
Bloodstone, Chrysanthemum, EPOCH, Midwest Poetry Review, Nerve Cowboy, No Exit, Penny Dreadful Review, Rain City
Review, SNARK, Talus & Scree, 2River View, Unwound, Urban Spaghetti, and Whiskey Island Magazine, among many others.
Her chapbook, Erratic Sleep in a Cold Hotel is available from Phony Lid Publications.
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