Mortal Questions-poem by Howie Good

MortalQuestions I kept yelling that I wasa friend, and they just kept throwing rocks and bottles. I thought, “Why arethey doing this to me? This isn’t the world I signed up for.” It’s hard tobelieve it really happened, and everyone is sitting here and having a goodtime, and the music is still playing. What I’m talking about is the goldenminutes. It's not the same as a normal night (I’ve got to wear this crushedvelvet hat). There’s a feeling of: what’s next? I just want my death to becool, and I guess being speared by a narwhal would be a pretty cool way to go. Howie Good is the author of The Loser's Guide to Street Fighting, winner of the 2017 Lorien Prize and forthcoming from Thoughtcrime Press, and Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry.  Poem by Howie Good Drawing by Janne Karlsson