A pocket knife, a set of keys …
these are things I could believe
I would misplace — I would not grieve
a set of keys; I would replace them.
But a sweater, shrunken at the sleeves, and bleached
at the collar, with a zipper so precocious
I could not coax the thing to feed — and I…
Ben Hackman
Ben Hackman is the founding editor of The Molotov Rag, Toronto’s anarchist quarterly. His work has appeared in Jones Avenue and is forthcoming in Canadian Literature.