THE BELIEVER

March/April 2011

Oh, Wow, Mausoleums,

A new poem

by Kathleen Ossip
says the man who doesn’t remind me of you

except that everything reminds me of you, except mausoleums.

In the important world (my imagination), I am watching you, simply, without hope or dream. In the unimportant world, this man and I are driving past the cemetery.

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Kathleen Ossip is the author of The Search Engine and Cinephrastics, a chapbook of movie poems. Her new book, The Cold War, will be published in May.