I NEVER SAID THANK YOU

 

Paul Edward Costa

 

 

 

If broken eggshells could speak,

they might forgive us

for the sacrifice we ask

while suggesting that we could

                                      at least,

address them directly

and say a quick prayer

of apologetic

    acknowledgement

                      before tearing a few apart

                      or boiling their soft innards

                      into hardened states of devilry

then, ideally,

lay their corpses down

in organic

fields of decay

so that they might

            give strength

            back to life with their flesh.

 

 

 

 

Paul Edward Costa (He/Him) is a writer, teacher, spoken word artist, and the 2019-2021 Poet Laureate of Mississauga. He’s featured in many poetry reading series and has published over 60 poems and stories in literary journals worldwide. His fiction collection God Damned Avalon is available from Mosaic Press and his poetry book The Long Train of Chaos was published by Kung Fu Treachery Press. He's also won the Mississauga Arts Council's 2019 MARTY Award for Emerging Literary Arts.