Tuesday, November 19, 2024

I Gave It One Star by John Grey

A friend recommends
a movie to me.

I finally get around
to seeing it.

And I hate
every 103 minutes
of the thing.

So I doubt my friend’s
good taste
but not his friendship.

“What’d you think?”
he asks me,
a week or so later.

“Loved it,”
I tell him.

It’s not so much a lie
as an answer
to a previous question.

--

John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, ”Between Two Fires”, “Covert” and “Memory Outside The Head” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Shot Glass Journal.