Life is a ball
of shit,
she says.
You’re born,
she says,
and you go to school,
she says,
and sometimes
you get married
and have kids,
she says.
You work,
she says,
and work
and work
and if you’re lucky,
she says,
you retire.
You fall apart,
she says,
and no one
can tell you
why.
Ed Komenda is a writer and journalist from Chicago’s South Side. His fiction has appeared in Literary Orphans. He lives in Nevada.
