Our poet this week is Nina R. Alonso. Alonso is the founder of the literary magazine Constellations.

War movie: Charlie

What Charlie was like
cooked solid stoned

hollering in our apartment
trying on voices

‘marine tonight you die
marine tonight you die’

our red painted kitchen
trash bags overflowing

a hundred empty bottles
on the back porch floor

‘marine tonight you die
marine tonight you die’

windows too small to
show the stars or sky

we wanted to go to bed
but sat listening like cats

‘marine tonight you die
marine tonight you die’

can’t recall how we
got rid of him.

— Nina R. Alonso

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