Mamashee, Issue No.1 Volume 2

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Survival Technique

Never would've believed
your kind existed
anymore.
Like the Dodo
and the Edsel
(generational phase
a passing craze)
extinct. Though

sometimes
I thought I caught
a glimmer
of the essence
in others
caught off guard.

There you sit
my friend
discussing the
plagues of this world
so plainly
suffering yourself.

Keep it up
my friend
and you'll become
yourself
an endangered specie.
Those amorphous others
that great majority

once they catch wind
will howl
for blood. Just
remember:
detached
rationality
is the current
formula for
self-preservation.

c. 1978 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Mamashee