Dostoyevsky's Dice
12 times the mousetrap snaps and
12 times I discover it's empty.
Hemingway had bulls.
Bukowski, race horses.
Nabokov, butterflies.
Schopenhauer, poodles.
And me, I've got mice
whose work with peanut butter
provides perpetual awe and despair.
- © Brooks Lindberg 2022
Brooks Lindberg is a tax attorney recently moved to the Pacific Northwest. His poems often appear in The Blotter Magazine. Others appear in Tigershark Magazine, Squawk Back, Wild Violet, and elsewhere. You can find links to his works at brookslindberg.com.
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