The American Poetry Review

THE ART OF LONDON FIREARMS

For the sake of living longer, we should not
eat this. The bottomless pan of mac and cheese

stringing itself from itself to the porcelain plate
as the television drones and the men

with glasses like mine—the frames that make us looksmarter than what we

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