Born in Chicago, Mary Langer Thompson has traveled Route 66 to California where she lives today. She’s been to several countries in Europe and states in the U.S., including the real and the Las Vegas Venice and Paris. Her poetry appears in various journals and anthologies, most recently, Eating Her Wedding Dress: A Collection of Clothing Poems (Ragged Sky Press, 2009), J Journal, and Off the Coast.
I’d been thinking about leaving. I’d been thinking how there’s something about out here. Before long it’s a new January and you’re hungover with a heartache for a man you won’t see for several years until he pops up on that very popular, critically-acclaimed sitcom with that actress you learned to like, then hate, then feign indifference abou
The leak in your breathing/ tube makes a cartoon squeak./ It takes two nurses, silent/ as nuns, to place you/ in my arms...
If I have already/ gone insane/ but I want to get/ crazier yet,/ what’s my move?/ Go outsane?
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