Next!

There ought to be a test

to see if someone is suited

to be a cop: a simple test

of just one question.

Do you want to be a cop?

If the answer is yes

kick their asses out the door.

“Next!”

Kaz Sussman is a carpenter and disaster response worker who lives in a home he built in Oregon from abandoned poems. He has published in Nimrod, Kingpin Chess, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Prodigal, The Healing Muse and Gastronomica. kazsussman.com