You Know How You Beat the Ghost?
Matt Anserello
You stop paying attention to it. You threaten to play
your homemade theremin. You guesstimate the time
it takes to perform open-heart surgery. Then you divide
by two. You fall asleep with all your clothes on. You
wrangle the Woody Allen shaped cloud into your
bedroom. You do the impossible and stay sober
on your birthday. Then you wait for your fake
beard to grow in. Then you pretend to shave.
Matt Anserello is from Indianapolis, Indiana. He holds an MFA from West Virginia University and lives in Morgantown with writer Emily C. Watson and two retired greyhounds. His poems have appeared in Bat City Review, Phoebe, Smartish Pace, and Versal, among others. He is the West Virginia winner of the 2009 Open Thread Tri-State Chapbook Contest for his chapbook Cloud Shaped Room.
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