I never know what it is
I'm taking part in.
When we first met,
my wife thought I was a genius.
She doesn't think that anymore.
We lie together at night.
She sleeps. I watch
amateur porn on my phone.
Then it's all confused robots
and crying dinosaurs.
No safeword necessary.
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' books are, You're Going to Miss Me When You're Bored, and A Million in Prizes. His latest chapbook is We Used to Have Parties. He is a co-founder of Birds, LLC, an independent poetry press, and lives in Queens, NY with his wife and their twin son and daughter.
We’ve published three more poems by Marks: “from They're There,” “Raising children is boring,” and “Sometimes I like my own poems a little too much.”
