SurVision Magazine
An international online magazine
that publishes Surrealist poetry in English.
Issue Fourteen
IAN GANASSI
Exhausted Wisdom
You said it, if you want to call it that.
In my reveries of pleasure, I'm eating hashish, in the brothels of nowhere.
We can look at the inkblot for a very long time and see absolutely nothing.
Meanwhile, in the gymnasium, I guess endocrinology has the answers.
A seamster is one who sews. A teamster is one who strikes.
A professor is one who knows.
Who knew it was the same as the combination to the safe?
I don't have much to lose. On the other hand, I've lost enough.
When I opened the popsicle for instance,
What I pulled out of the wrapper was mostly stick.
That was a long time ago, and we were high.
At the same old place they agreed to meet at the same old place.
"What disco am I at?"
Then there's the Jolly Green Giant;
He thinks you should know everything he knows.
For instance how the water tower dominates the landscape.
Round and round and round it goes, and then you die.
"Growing old is not for the faint of heart."
Whoever said that, said it.
Ian Ganassi is from Connecticut. His work has appeared recently, or will appear soon, in New American Writing, Blazevox, Home Planet News, Book of Matches, and The Yale Review. His first full length collection, Mean Numbers, was published by Isolibris/China Grove Press in 2016; his second, True for the Moment, by David Robert Books in 2023.
