A Quarter Century Of Hindsight by J.J. Campbell

sitting in a room
at the doctor’s
office waiting
on x-ray results

slowly getting
nervous

i look down at
my left hand
and see your
initial

i rub it and
start to laugh

if i had known
how the last 25
years would
have gone

i would have
had that initial
put on the
middle
finger

J.J. Campbell (1976 – soon) is old enough to know better. He’s been widely published over the years, most recently at Dead Snakes, The Camel Saloon, Horror Sleaze Trash, NewPoetry.net, and ZYX. His last book of poems, Sofisticated White Trash (Interior Noise Press) is available wherever people buy books these days. You can find J.J. most days bitching about things only he cares about on his highly entertaining blog, evil delights. (http://evildelights.blogspot.com)