I am the everlasting ghost
forever tethered to haunt
from within the crowded walls of
your chain restaurant where
I was taken out to dinner for my
last birthday on Earth and
choked on a fish taco full of
hot oil and bones where
you saved face by
comping my family’s check
that night and
sending them generous coupons
every week for the rest of
their lives.
Stephen Wack is a graduate from UGA where he studied Psychology with an emphasis in Neuroscience and briefly worked as an intern at the university’s literary journal, The Georgia Review. He has been the featured reader at multiple events in his town of Athens, as well as hosts a local, monthly open-mic night, Goetry. In June Stephen self-published his first chapbook, “scalpy,” a collection of auto-biographical prose and poetry. His work is to be featured in the January issues of Artifact and Linden Avenue Literary Journal.
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