by Steve Deutsch
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| Cartoon by José Alberto Rodríguez Avila |
My cousin Bobby
tells me
the ultra rich
are negotiating
for more sunshine
on their compounds.
He reasons
that will mean
less sunshine
for the rest of us.
“They also want
a full moon
every night of the year.”
Bobby’s the nicest guy,
but thinks 2+2 is advanced math.
He read about the sunlight
in several feeds
on the internet
and now he owns it.
I ask him
who they are negotiating with
and he gives me
his poor dumb cousin look.
I drive home past
what we know as “the castle on the hill,”
and it seems to me
the hill has gotten higher.
The sun sets at my house
at 7:41 tonight—
it’s supposed to set at eight.
And I have to wonder
what else they might
be bargaining for.
Steve Deutsch is poetry editor of
Centered Magazine and was the first poet in residence at the Bellefonte
Art Museum. He has been nominated for the Pushcart and Best of the Net
Prizes multiple times. He has six volumes of Poetry. One, Brooklyn won
the Sinclair Poetry Prize.
