Parvenu Weekly
Nate Fisher
sweet sounds
succeed
the maestro's heart
ache
with melpomene ears
that
wait
the times
the composer
can arrange even the
last (whispers)
between
abraham and mary todd
lincoln
whether
AND NOW FOR OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION
or series premiere
first edition hard
back
there is
no longer
any
dispute
the mystic bible of
DIY savanthood
is back in circulation
again
it's made up
of verses
from the
bone and flint
virtuosos
street prophets who
lyricize divorce
on their lunch hour
traffictraffictraffictraffic
of genius
holding up their masks
to conduct
each of
their precious histories
to
the front of the line
a sonata
the result
from napping
with the
cat
martini night
is the new
fellini
every
last
bite of indian food
the plot twist
of the hour
all of this
melodious
misery
keeps the fifth grade
dilettante
awake
in
anxiety
scuttling
the
owlish
hours
his careful
meditations
jerking
black to white
worrying
if he really looks as young anymore
if he is the wooden boy turning to ash
and
back to word count:
four
hundred
and
seventy
two
of an essay
on
John Wilkes Booth
the derringer’s
songbird