Soren Stockman won First Place in the 2013 Narrative 30 Below Contest. The author of the debut poetry collection Elephant (Four Way Books, 2022), he lives in New York City.

Photograph by Beowulf Sheehan.

Communication

by Soren Stockman

Rarely does anyone say anything
they haven’t said to themselves,
in words or otherwise. Joseph
Mengele drowned feeling sorry
for himself. The acrobatics
the mind undertakes in order
to justify the life it maintains
cannot be underestimated.

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