Malachi Black is the author of Storm toward Morning, a Lannan Literary Selection and chosen for the Poetry Society of America’s New American Poets Series, as well as two limited-edition chapbooks: Quarantine and Echolocation. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he earned a BA in literature from New York University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Texas at Austin’s Michener Center for Writers. Black is assistant professor of English and creative writing at the University of San Diego and lives in California.

Poem in the Contemporary Manner

by Malachi Black

Everyone’s depressed, so what
if we no longer throw our clothes into the rain?
That we ran toward the lightning once
was dumb enough, and the lake
was cold. If getting old means no more bacon
for lunch, then why don’t we just get drunk

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