Your Results May Vary
by Patrick Meeds
Spacing out at a stop light
until the embarrassing honk
from behind. Pushing and pushing
on a door only to realize
the little placard by the handle
says pull.
When I watch sports
I never focus on the guy with the ball.
The machine in my chest only knows
how to do one thing. It’s pretty extreme,
but you can use dynamite to put out a fire.
You can taste rain on the wind.
They used to perform surgery
without anesthetic.They used to sacrifice
people to the Gods. I can’t stop thinking
about Mt. St. Helens and the super volcano
beneath Yellowstone. Six hundred
and forty thousand years
it has been waiting
and so have I.
Patrick Meeds
Patrick Meeds lives in Syracuse, NY and studies writing at the Syracuse YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center. He has been previously published in Stone Canoe, New Ohio Review, Tupelo Quarterly, the Atticus Review, Door is a Jar, Guernica, The Pinch, and Nine Mile Review among others. His first book, The Invisible Man’s Tailor, is available from Nine Mile Press.