“Fame” was the Bowie song playing
on the stereo when we returned from vacation
(early)
to teenagers hosting a kegger.
We eventually forgave them,
but kids trashed the place.
Broken curios, pukers,
couple in our bed,
pizza on the turntable.
Trust violated.
Thought it was “Fame,”
but Jane says “Heroes.”
TODD MERCER won the Dyer-Ives Kent County Prize for Poetry (2016), the National Writers Series Poetry Prize (2016) and the Grand Rapids Festival Flash Fiction Award (2015). His digital chapbook, Life-wish Maintenance, appeared at Right Hand Pointing. Mercer's recent poetry and fiction appear in The Lake, Peacock Journal, Split Lip Magazine and Vending Machine Press.
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