SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fifteen
BOB LUCKY
The Last Lesson
We were both surprised to see the piano run across the room and jump out the window. The tear it made in the Persian rug was unfortunate, but it needed to be cleaned anyway. By the time we got to the window and looked out, we could see the piano curled up like a fox stole around the shoulders of a man with a magnet for a hat. And it was humming a song we had never heard before. It was beautiful, and we wept thinking of all the money we had wasted on piano lessons.
Transformation
My love for ceiling fans unrequited
I step out into the world
to strip and bare my soul.
While the mosquitoes of anxiety
needle the night,
a breeze arrives but
too late to comfort me.
I've no intention to stay
at the bottom of the river
but it's cool
and I feel at home.
I've always wanted to be an otter,
but I can feel the catfish
coming out in me.
Bob Lucky is an American poet, the author of Ethiopian Time (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2014), Conversation Starters in a Language No One Speaks (SurVision Books, 2018), and My Thology: Not Always True but Always Truth (Cyberwit, 2019). He is currently living in Portugal.
