If you can suppress
the symptoms for three years
we might agree
that you no longer have it
and may freely regress
to the hard-hearted
world of the healt...
Kathryn Paulsen’s poetry and prose have been published in New Letters, West Branch, the New York Times, et al., and may currently be read or are forthcoming in Frontera, The Stinging Fly, and Scum, among others. She also writes for stage and screen. She currently lives in New York City, but, having grown up in an Air Force family, has roots in many places, and suffers from chronic wanderlust. See her occasional musings at ramblesandrevels.blogspot.com.