I've got big oil in my inbox
 
I want to divide the world
 
Into parts where ours is the same
 
And I'm living with you
 
Sometimes you wear pearls
 
On your thin wrist
 
Without despair
 
When I'm drunk
 
By myself
 
I wish you weren't dead
 
But that's as far as I'll go


Ben Fama is the author of the chapbook Aquarius Rising (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009) and New Waves (Minutes Books, 2011). He is the co-editor of Wonder, a publisher of art books, glossies, and pamphlets. His work has been featured in jubilat, notnostrums, LIT, Poor Claudia, Denver Quarterly, and on the Best American Poetry Blog.

Art: Leak in Logic (2007) by Greg Allen-Müller.