Booster
We don’t know how
we’ve watched two episodes
of this cop show with
subtitles more terrible than
the actors, our mal
di testa from the Pfizer
now a full-blown, two-
person migraine. What is
a boost again? you ask.
I fucked the steps,
says the new super
translated as goalkeeper
brandishing a broom,
meaning he swept.
Hilary Sideris’s poems have appeared in recent issues of The American Journal of Poetry, Barrow Street, Okay Donkey, OneArt, and Sixth Finch, among others. She is the author most recently of Un Amore Veloce (Kelsay Books 2019), The Silent B (Dos Madres Press 2019), and Animals in English, poems after Temple Grandin (Dos Madres Press 2020).
