about the author
Scott Stoller is a practicing physician in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a graduate of Colgate University. He has
work coming out in the next issue of Atlas Poetica.
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A Wood County Monosonnet, Interrupted
Scott Stoller
Outside
the
theater
a
mockingbird
sings
You were as poised as can be with a knife and a pen in your delicate hands. And those bastards stood in that line you so graciously invited them to stand in. And they joked among themselves that you got to where you are on your back.
And on your knees. And you could probably suck a golf ball through a garden hose. And I stood there.
of
things
she
doesn’t
believe
in
at
all