After Apollinaire

for Eric Lorberer

It’s four o’clock in the afternoon,

and it is finished;

I sit back and light my cigarette

on a ray of dusk.

I don’t want to write anymore.

All I want to do is smoke.

This poem appeared in The Beforelife by Franz Wright, published by Knopf Doubleday, 2002.

10.09.2026

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