Hollywood by JT Welsch
Our Hollywood
baker returns to England,
a fall like his
weaker contestants’ bread.
Every day,
another headline to share
with comment:
team him or team
poor wife whose
pain we share
since her – our – betrayal.
No one sees his
lonesomeness
in the return
to mere couplehood—
to no longer
sweep the room, hands on hips,
and know: but I am more than this!
—the errant
heart still leaping
if she touches
your phone.
It’s the thing
no contestant
dares admit:
love is risk.
May the game reveal
my recipe to me
in every heightened
peccadillo: So, you say,
muting the
replay. That’s how I look not
bullshitting. You take notes.
JT Welsch is the author of three chapbooks, the most recent of which is 'Waterloo' (Like This Press, 2012). He is also a lecturer at York St John University.
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