HALF OUT?

infuriatingly banal last thought

he noticed
as he was dying
that the TV was still on

Half Out?

My gay friend told me
He found Batman in a bar.
Maybe he was looking for a criminal there, I said.
“That’s not what he whispered in my ear, darling.”

Not In The Movie

The superhero in his skintight costume
Leaped across the river.
What he did there, that’s private.

in and out of my apartment

the moth has fled
gone into its moth place
in the great

Ira Rosenstein is a poet, who also works in radio, in New York City. His four poems are part of a very large group of short poems he calls Mere Poems. Mr. Rosenstein's last book (unpublished) is The Winter Hunt, 104 poems/poem hybrids in 327 pages. Mr. Rosenstein welcomes correspondence at irawor@hotmail.com. Additional work of his (poetry and prose) can be read at irawrites.com