The best part about 
this entire 
procedure 
is that it 
alleviates the user 
of the formerly 
onerous burden 
of spending a lifetime 
to gether with 
a nother person 
in order to 
find out what 
a life spent 
to gether with 
that other person 
would have been 
like! Imagine the time 
saved! Now you 
can have lived 
an entire lifetime 
to gether with 
someone between 
breakfast and watering 
your bonsai 
garden without 
so much 
as taking 
a step out 
side the comfort 
of your 
home 

Alex Starr is a writer in the San Francisco Bay Area whose poems have been published in Vallum: Contemporary Poetry, Atlas & Alice, Snapdragon Journal, The Literary Bohemian, Lunch Ticket, Zoetic Press, The Write Launch, and Meat for Tea: The Valley Review. Prior recognitions include the Dorothy Sugarman Prize in Poetry, George Harmon Coxe Award in Fiction, and Barnes Shakespeare Essay Prize from the Cornell University English Department. Alex holds a B.A. in Philosophy/English from Cornell and Oxford where he co-led the Mansfield College Poetry Society.