they haven’t
forgotten you
& just
as you suspected
they are cashing
in on you now
that they need
not support you
they use
manuscripts of
yours they once rejected
toast to their
profits
without
mentioning your
name walls of
their Manhattan
homes boast
Picassos yet they
continue
to scrounge up
work you hid to again make
sure
that I pay them
56 The Paris-American
Mark Wisniewski’s poems have appeared in Poetry, New York Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Hiram Poetry Review, Confrontation, Post Road, and Poetry International. His second novel, Show Up, Look Good, was praised by Ben Fountain, Christine Sneed, Jonathan Lethem, and T. R. Hummer. His fiction has won a PushcartPrize and appeared in Best American Short Stories.
