jeremy rich

 

 

Headline


Child Drowns While Mother on Web


too much:
social networking
antisocial behavior


social voyeurism.
too many: “friends”


friends?


Is she fat?
I wonder.
Is he single?
I’m clever
LOOK AT ME!


bath time
“Independent baby”


Mom-facebook
Baby-face down


Blood isn’t thicker than water
not even thicker than...


A million friends
Alone
splashing
chatting
silence


update


slick bathtub bottom
Drenched in tragic, sickening irony
saturated lungs
drowned hearts


Is it Friday yet?
LOL

check your tub

 

Jeremy Rich has published a number of poems in various print and online journals. He has also been nominated for Best of the Net twice this year. He is currently an 8th grade Language Arts teacher in Colorado, and plays harmonica for Ramblers' Guild. Check us out at www.facebook.com/pages/Ramblers-Guild/115145658528726

 

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