Email Ted Now!

by Corey Mesler

 

In classmates.com I find
your profile
though you've been dead a year now.
And the invitation:
Email Ted Now!
I almost try it and what holds me back?
Fear, children,
simple, human-plane fear. I'd expect
an answer, yes,
I'd expect the ultimate answer.

 

© 2005 Corey Mesler

Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. His novel, Talk: A Novel in Dialogue, was released in 2002. He also has a number of poetry chapbooks available. In 2005, his second novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon will be released. He also claims to have written, "Incense and Peppermints." With his wife, he runs Burke's Book Store in Memphis TN.