Acerbic outbursts. Visions
of a dead woman with cake.
A brother's revenge. A weary
shoe repairman becomes
a saint. She spent her life
preparing. A new age of
villains calls for old-school
heroes. Religion. Family.
Supremacy. He set out for
Space, then took a detour.
Murders so gruesome, they
make no sense. No problem.
This monkey can make friends
anywhere.

William Lessard has writing that has appeared or is forthcoming in McSweeney's, NPR, Prelude, Wired, Thought Catalog, People Holding, Drunk Monkeys, and Voicemail Poems. He won the first-annual "Bureaucratic Writing Contest" hosted by tNY.Press (formerly theNewerYork). He was recently accepted into the Ashbery Home School.