What’s the remedy for weak-at-the-knees?
I wanted to leave this earth,
join you and your son.
You wanted nothing of it.
Sent angels to rip up my passport,
keep me in the country.
So I putter,
wait,
and wonder.
Robert Nersesian attended the Yale Drama School and NYU School of Business. His essays have appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post; short stories in Ararat Magazine; poetry in Poetica Review; and reviews in The New York Journal of Books. He lives in Washington, DC.
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