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.