Yellow Mama E zine

Terminal Velocity

 

by Darrell Petska

 

Hey, stop calling me! I can’t answer.

I’ll troll you no longer on that twit’s former twitter.

I’m done liking every damned thing you post on Facebook,

and I release you from same.

BTW Google, you can junk my three e-mail accounts,

or better yet, my password is 1luckyduck! so fire away, world.

How long’ll it take you to catch on, mail guy?

And you, my so-called neighbors?

I’m sorry, fish.

Dear Census Bureau: you can knock till your knuckles bleed.

Dear IRS: FU.

Dear DMV: consider my license expired.

From now on I’m incognito.

Grant the dead some hard-earned rest.

 

 

          Darrell Petska is a retired university engineering editor whose writing has appeared in Yellow Mama, Clockwise Cat, 3rd Wednesday Magazine, Orchards Poetry Journal, and widely elsewhere online and in print (conservancies.wordpress.com). Father of five and grandfather of seven, he lives near Madison, Wisconsin, with his wife of more than 50 years.

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          Bernice Holtzman’s paintings and collages have appeared in shows at various venues in Manhattan, including the Back Fence in Greenwich Village, the Producer’s Club, the Black Door Gallery on W. 26th St., and one other place she can’t remember, but it was in a basement, and she was well received. She is the Assistant Art Director for Yellow Mama.