Richard Newman

Lost and Found

Since I lost you, baby,
I’ve found myself again,
though I can’t find my keys
or that good bottle of gin.

But I’m in touch with myself
now that I am found—
who says the sex is better
with someone else around?

Each night I dine alone
and later I get sauced.
Now that I am found,
I liked me better lost.

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Richard Newman’s newest poetry chapbook,  24 Tall Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times (Snark Publishing/Firecracker Press), will appear in November.  He is also the author of the poetry collection Borrowed Towns (Word Press, 2005).  He lives in St. Louis where he teaches at Washington University and St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley, edits River Styx magazine, and directs the River Styx at Duff’s Reading Series.