My Faction
There are so many
factions in poetry!
Personally, I hang with
the Minimalist Marxists.
Lazy Rich Kids
Lazy rich kids, I love you!
Let me sit in your room
as you discuss Flaubert.
I’ll be your math tutor,
or rub your back.
Let’s eat braised
brussels sprouts!
Sparrow lives with his wife, Violet Snow, three roommates and a dog in an 132 year old house in Teaneck, New Jersey. Sparrow is the author of Yes, Your Are a Revolutionary, Republican Like Me and America: A Prophecy: The Sparrow Reader (Soft Skull Press). Appearances magazine published a special issue of his work. Sparrow dabbles in Orthodox Judaism and piano improvisation.
If I believed in God,
I imagine he’d have a beard
much like Sparrow’s
but since I’m an atheist
and an anarchist
I’ll fiddle with Sparrow’s beard
for meaning instead
and when I find that juicy morsel
I’ll pop in my mouth
and swallow it with glee
Thank you for your own canny way of submitting, Mark. Enjoy Evergreen.