There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier by Matthew Rohrer

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend November 4, 2014   There Is Absolutely Nothing Lonelier   Matthew Rohrer

There is absolutely nothing lonelier than the little Mars rover never shutting down, digging up rocks, so far away from Bond street in a light rain. I wonder if he makes little beeps? If so he is lonelier still. He fires a laser into the dust. He coughs. A shiny thing in the sand turns out to be his.            Copyright © 2014 by Matthew Rohrer. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   “I was coming out of a bar in Manhattan in the rain at night. I felt lonely. Then I thought: there is nothing lonelier than that little guy up there on Mars, never shutting down. And if he’s beeping up there, how much lonelier still, that no one can hear it. Still, I like to think the engineers designed him to beep.” —Matthew Rohrer   Matthew Rohrer is the author of Surrounded by Friends, forthcoming from Wave Books in 2015. He teaches at New York University and lives in Brooklyn. Most Recent Book by Rohrer   Surrounded by Friends (Wave Books, 2015) "Boston" by Aaron Smith "Quiet" by Tony Hoagland "How I Am" by Jason Shinder Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038