Ron Drummond
The End of the World As We Know It
They’ve given notice:
TV listings in The Times
shall shortly be extinct.
“You will be left
to your various devices,”
sniggers Lady Gray.
We guess, quite
thinkably, what’s next?
No Book Review?
But reader, write
this awful query down:
“No crossword puzzle?”
—Submitted on 09/06/2020
Ron Drummond is the author of Why I Kick At Night (Portlandia Group, 2004). His poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Columbia Review, Global City Review, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, and James White Review, among other journals. He lives in New York City.
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