by Kristine Ong Muslim

Jazz is wriggling into a pair of pants.
The gospel of tango rules
as I extricate from them at the end of the day.

I do not know what the word abscond means;
I have looked it up in the dictionary today,
and it is not something I want to do.

I am happy, and I think that is what
does it for me.

I do not have to have something for sale.
I simply stock up on things I am willing to lose later.

 

 

More than six hundred poems and stories by Kristine Ong Muslim have been published or are forthcoming in over two hundred journals and magazines worldwide. Her work has recently appeared in Blue Fifth Review, Dog Versus Sandwich, Farrago's Wainscot, GlassFire Magazine, Grasslimb, GUD Magazine, Merge Poetry, Pank, Paradigm, and Novelletum.