Crashing Down a Glass Slide, Age 53

Issue 11 | Winter 2023 | Derek Otsuji

 

 

                                         Because you’ve
read Camus,
                                         you chuckle,
conclude
                                         at this late age
that, yes,
                                         Sisyphus is
happy.
                                         You get up,
brush off
                                         the dust
of grass—
                                         scale the mound.