Now stouter
and broader,
temples too
gray to hide.
Had to turn
ugly as me
to become
somebody
able to take
own baggage.
Welcome to
man’s world.
Population:
an army of
lonely ones
cut off.
No longer
wanted
but oh so
very needed.
No one
gets any
except those
who ask
so much of
your all.
Chad Parenteau hosts Boston’s long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Ibbetson Street, Pocket Lint, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, The Skinny Poetry Journal, The New Verse News, dadakuku, Nixes Mate Review and The Ugly Monster. He has also been published in anthologies such as French Connections, Sounds of Wind, Reimagine America, and The Vagabond Lunar Collection. He serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine and co-organizer of the annual Boston Poetry Marathon. He lives and works in Boston.
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