calm down

Saw a vcr player turned up in the river
This is how I learned to write my name
And every day, what can never be, is
And everything that’s yet to come, is
Another time gone by times x
It’s all supposed to happen like this
I can write my name in the sand
A zillion times over it will be taken
This is how death learns our names

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from CALM DOWN!–published by Factory Hollow Press

Buy the chapbook here

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Ian Fishman is from Northampton, MA. He wrote Football
Rockstar (illicit zines / blush) and CALM DOWN! (factory
hollow press). He works on the Press Brake fridge.