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| Issue 18: | 29 Apr. 2023 |
| Poem: | 90 words |
By Roseanne Freed
In the Workshop After I Read My Poem Aloud
This isn’t a poem.
It’s a newspaper article, he said.
Where are the metaphors and similes?
My fame is so infamous I don’t need metaphors or similes to play like a plague. My smile is contagious, it lights up the room, fires a fever in my victims, and as I dance on the lungs I simply cancel respiration. After months of my successful crusade, they’re naming their kids— Covid, Kovvy, Kovyd, Corona, Ko’rona. I’m like a god in a Greek Myth.
Roseanne Freed
spent more than a decade working in the Gift Store at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Her poems have appeared in Blue Heron Review, MacQueen’s Quinterly, ONE ART, Verse-Virtual, and Writing in a Woman’s Voice, among others. Her work was nominated for Best of the Net 2022.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ The Stranger (23 February 2023) by Roseanne Freed in ONE ART
⚡ Where are you from? in Verse-Virtual (July 2022)
⚡ Signs read by Rosie on YouTube (25 January 2021)
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