Poem by Mather Schneider

THE PITS

They broke the apart­ment window

and cleaned us out

while we were at work.

I feel violated

but the worst part about it

is all my bullshit

about being on the edge of

soci­ety

seems pret­ty pale

next to these criminals

steal­ing to survive

and sur­viv­ing well

putting me in my place

smack dab in the middle

of the herd.

I had fat hang­ing from

me and they

came and chopped

it off.

Math­er Schnei­der is a 40 year old cab dri­ver from Tuc­son, Ari­zona. He is hap­pi­ly mar­ried to a sexy Mex­i­can woman. His poet­ry and prose have appeared in the small press since 1993. He has one full length book out by Inte­ri­or Noise Press called Drought Resis­tant Strain and anoth­er full length com­ing in the spring of 2011 from New York Quar­ter­ly Press