“Contradictors”

“Contradictors”

Rich Glinnen

I can’t grasp

what they say.

First, it’s left,

then it’s down,

then right,

then up,

so they’re always stirring.

Like cups without handles,

they are easy to drop.

Best of the Net nominee Rich Glinnen has featured his poetry on Rich Vos’s and Bonnie McFarlane’s podcast My Wife Hates Me and is a mainstay at the Nuyorican Poets Café. His work can be read in various print and online journals, as well as on his Tumblr and Instagram pages. He currently has two cats, two kids, and one wife.