Actor Jeff Willis reads the short story "Other People's Boredom" by Kyle McManus. Kyle's story appeared in the Therapy issue of TLR (Fall 2009)

Other Peoples Boredom by Kyle McManus

Actor Jeff Willis reads the short story "Other People's Boredom" by Kyle McManus. Kyle's story appeared in the Therapy issue of TLR (Fall 2009).

Other People's Boredom

And Then What America, And Then What?
a poem by R.G. Evans
read by R.G. Evans and reprinted from The Literary Review



R.G. Evans
"And Then What America, And Then What?" 
(Milton Kessler) 





What if California wasn't the end of possibility?
Gleaming out past Alcatraz and Coronado-
someplace real to reach, if only you could walk across the water.
  
Forget Manifest Destiny. What is ever manifest?
What is destined? Today is only lupine yesterday
wrapped up warmly in fresh wool.

Call it The Inevitable Bliss, or if you like,
call it Best Western, the place where they have
to take you in when Home turns you away.

What would you say to such a sunset,
to the glittering waves conjured by the moon?
I'll say I'm the brother of the water when I mean I'm the sister of the air.

What if we have always had this, this more-than-we-had-ever-imagined?
What if all this time we've lived in dread
of the end of something that just goes on and on . . .

and then what, America, and then what? 

  


And Then What America

"The Sestina Has Been Drinking" by Steve Davenport. A special reading for The Literary Review by the poet. (Originally published in TLR: Machismo-A Field Guide, Winter 2010) www.theliteraryreview.org 