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Ultra-Violet Desk Lamp - A Pantoum

  • Writer: Cole Barrios
    Cole Barrios
  • Jun 10, 2024
  • 1 min read

Updated: Jun 14, 2024

I never want to read again.

Printed river, carve me through

Let me know when studies shiver like song, when single-file lines crease like laughter.

Irony is reading the dead man’s words.


Printed river, carve me through

My friends learn twice as much dancing barefoot on the lawn, chanting

Irony is reading the dead man’s words.

The real pop quiz was his funeral—I only knew half the material.


My friends learn twice as much dancing barefoot on the lawn, chanting

I never want to read again.

The real pop quiz was his funeral—I only knew half the material.

Let me know when studies shiver like song, when single-file lines crease like laughter.


 
 
 

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