The average British man will drink 14,000 prints in his lifetime.
– Daily Mail (England’s New York Post)
I’ve won early—
not a game
but I’ve won…
& what do I win?
loss on loss on loss—
a lifetime of losses—contained
in a decade
—compartmentalized
or death
as Eddie Izzard suggests—
the alternative to cake
Mark Danowsky is a Philadelphia poet, author of the poetry collection As Falls Trees (NightBallet Press), Editor of ONE ART: A Journal of Poetry, and Senior Editor at Schuylkill Valley Journal.