The Genius of the American Man
by Ananda Osel
when we were children we'd
lay around on the grass shirtless
talking of what we would do
what we would drive
who we would fuck
during our teenage years we'd
attend the parties and the football matches
talking of what we would do
where we would go
who we were fucking
and now...
we attend to our jobs, girlfriends, and house pets
talking of what we did in the past
what we should have done
where we should have traveled
and who we want to fuck but never will
ANANDA OSEL is the editor of The CommonLine Project, which is a Guerilla Cyberzine that deals mostly in poetry and non-fiction. His work has appeared in The Local Writer, Zygote in My Coffee, and others. New work is forthcoming in The Harvard Review. Ananda lives in rainy Seattle, Washington. You can read more of his work at: www.ananda-osel.com.
when we were children we'd
lay around on the grass shirtless
talking of what we would do
what we would drive
who we would fuck
during our teenage years we'd
attend the parties and the football matches
talking of what we would do
where we would go
who we were fucking
and now...
we attend to our jobs, girlfriends, and house pets
talking of what we did in the past
what we should have done
where we should have traveled
and who we want to fuck but never will
ANANDA OSEL is the editor of The CommonLine Project, which is a Guerilla Cyberzine that deals mostly in poetry and non-fiction. His work has appeared in The Local Writer, Zygote in My Coffee, and others. New work is forthcoming in The Harvard Review. Ananda lives in rainy Seattle, Washington. You can read more of his work at: www.ananda-osel.com.
