“Love on the Rocks”
you get your
What have I done?
and your Oh shit!
Not again!
sandwiched with
an old desire
to black the fuck
out, to grab those
spots of non-time
that could grant
much needed alibis,
a balm of professed
ignorance so many
still rely on just
to not asphyxiate
themselves
unerotically
every morning.
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. His newest collections are All's Well Isn't You and Cant Republic: Erasures and Blackouts. 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.
