How to Fall out of Love Completely
By Jesse Wide
First, stop turning on the radio.
Keep the windows rolled up and listen
to the air shift on the car outside.
Go to happy hour alone twice a week.
Wear shoes, but no socks.
Plan long walks and never go.
Eat canned tuna for lunch and dinner.
Buy a goldfish and let it die in the tap water.
Wait one week to flush it.
Sleep as much as you can.
Buy an extra television to put by
your bed, just for when you are falling
asleep. Flip off one person you have
never met every day. Keep a lighter
handy, and when you feel the desire,
burn things—burn anything that moves.
Jesse Wide has lived in Baltimore for five years teaching high school English. He grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and considers it his home. His first poem was written while riding a train to Quincy, Illinois. He currently tries to make a poem each night before going to bed.
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