The Accident
Brought on by a coughing fit,
Grandpa fell two flights and spent
the war recuperating, to live
and fight a more just war
another day.
Or not and sleep
His life away in drunken stupor.
Brought on by a coughing fit,
Grandpa fell two flights and spent
the war recuperating, to live
and fight a more just war
another day.
Or not and sleep
His life away in drunken stupor.
- Jack Little 2011
Jack Little is 24 and lives in Mexico City. His work has been published in
3:AM Magazine, Warwick Unbound, Calliope Nerve,
The Bubble, Eunoia Review and on the Young Poets Network
website. Jack is the editor and founder of The Ofi Press, an online bilingual
magazine and publishing firm through which he publishes the work of young
Mexican poets and international writers as well as hosting monthly poetry
readings in the heart of DF. In 2012 he will be co-producing a book for The
Clipperton Project, an expedition to the forgetten island of Clipperton 1700
kilometers off the Mexican coast; a project bringing together artists and
scientists from around the world. Whilst working full time as a teacher, he also
works as the manager of the national Mexican cricket team.
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