Poetry by Victor Pearn
in the post office
everyone standing in line
was looking at their phone
on the bike path
walking or running
everybody is connected
and on the internet
and paying a lot of money
Id rather be free
Victor Pearn poet-in-residence at Quincy University, and now lives in Fort Collins, Colorado. BA University of Illinois, Springfield, MA University of Colorado, work appears in 200 magazines: Caribbean Writer, Chiron Review, Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, Midwest Quarterly, Mind Matters Review, Negative Capability, Seventh Quarry. Awards: 1984 Colorado University Poetry Contest.
