Gone
Viral
Frank
Iosue
( for Tim Ramos )
you want to live dangerously
be a world traveler
with a taste for asian cuisine
and exotic java
the cookie in every port
the darling of the platforms
an egosurfing netizen
who friends herself on facebook
and trolls herself on tinder
a twisted bachelorette
who doesn’t fit the profiles
who’s taken a few too many
hits
and prefers it unprotected
ersatz placebo
nano-morphing noob
that dreams
the dreams of pathogens
and goes by the handle
#pangaean
whose digital footprint
having dispensed
with all the protocols
is finally trending
Submitter Bio:
Frank Iosue was born in Los Angeles,
California in 1951. He holds a
Bachelor Of Arts degree in English
from California State University, Los Angeles and a Master Of Fine Arts degree
in Creative Writing / Poetry from The University of Iowa / Writer's Workshop.
He has conducted writing workshops,
been a featured reader at venues around Southern Arizona, and has served as a
judge for numerous national poetry competitions through the National Federation
Of State Poetry Societies. He also served as judge for the 2022 California
State Poetry Society Annual Contest. His poems have appeared in numerous
publications and online journals. He has published 11 chapbooks of poetry,
which were compiled and published in his volume The Au Revoir Of An Enormous
Us : Collected Poems ( 2017 ).
He lives near Tucson,
Arizona.
