for an unlimited MetroCardor green juice cleansejust a chorus chanting your namewhen you walk into a roomthe mood is moonlit & interioryou prepare monologueson ethics & speak theminto your fan’s whirwhile in the corneryour archetypal parentsmumble about wasted youthyou don’t need a therapistonly belief in an impossible causelike the gods you sufferfrom pride not shameyou walk
Jen Levitt is the author of So Long (2023) and The Off-Season (2016), both from Four Way Books. Her poems have appeared in The Adroit Journal, Boston Review, Tin House, The Yale Review and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.