(The View From Up Here)
by Kyle Gervais
after Rebecca Watts’ That
not our problem what the man does
or does not do down there
it really is
not we’ve got
our own
lives to lead our crosses to bear
our own nation each to
his own I say
he does not
own us
yet this transactional monster
this us against them come
to break us make
us his it’s
not just
a joke not just a whim not just
one of those things each day
he just does, does
not ask why
not why
not why not why not why not why
not why not why not why
not why not why
not why not
why not
Kyle Gervais teaches Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario in London, where he lives with his husband and two cats. He has poems in Arion, Canadian Literature, Classical Outlook, Eunoia Review, The New Verse News, Litbreak Magazine, PRISM international, and elsewhere
