#title Next!
#author Kaz Sussman
#SORTauthors Kaz Sussman;
#date 2024
#source [[https://www.fifthestate.org/archive/415-summer-2024-2/next]]
#lang en
#pubdate 2024-07-29
#notes Fifth Estate #415, Summer 2024

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 <em>Nimrod, Kingpin Chess, Interdisciplinary Humanities, Prodigal, The Healing Muse</em> and <em>Gastronomica</em>. <strong>kazsussman.com</strong>