WHAT I WANT
Sometimes I want
to be out of touch.
I do not want to
know current events.
I do not want
information and
I do not want to give
information.
I want relationships.
I do not want to
believe one thing.
There are too many
things to believe.
I don’t want to
be more productive.
I want to walk
across Spain,
to come to some
little town where
men drink
small glasses of beer
at a café and sweat.
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Daniel Sklar teaches Creative Writing at Endicott College, and has been published in the Harvard Review, English Journal, Beat Scene, and the New York Quarterly among other journals. His books include Flying Cats, Hack Writer, and Bicycles, Canoes, Drums. His play, “Lycanthropy” was performed at the Boston Theater Marathon in 2012 and was reviewed in The Boston Globe. He rides a bicycle to work.
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