about the baby
that ain’t yet
born,
a rumor to come
back and bite me in my ugly ass a**,
I’m gonna tell
you
this much—
here I am,
revealing the bait,
the hook I’m dangling
in front of you,
my—
trap, that’s
gonna net me some healthy elbow grease,
some healthy stitches in my side.
The news I’m spreading
to the extended family,
whom I will name,
the Jenny Keefers of this town.I wouldn’t advise telling them, about this.
Tyler Dempsey is the author of a book of poems called, Newspaper Drumsticks. His work appears in Schuylkill Valley Journal, Bear Creek Gazette, Rejection Letters, and the like. He’s a fiction reader at X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. Find him on Twitter @tylercdempsey.