Greg Yerumyan – Anastamos https://anastamos.chapman.edu The Graduate Literary Journal of Chapman University Wed, 15 May 2019 22:37:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.7 standing outside the bar looking in | By Greg Yerumyan https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/2019/05/15/standing-outside-the-bar-looking-in-by-greg-yerumyan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=standing-outside-the-bar-looking-in-by-greg-yerumyan https://anastamos.chapman.edu/index.php/2019/05/15/standing-outside-the-bar-looking-in-by-greg-yerumyan/#comments Wed, 15 May 2019 19:48:01 +0000 https://anastamos.chapman.edu/?p=2234 I see my pain
which is a pain that’s not
real
but it’s still there
just as God’s
still there
just as ghosts just as UFOs
are still there
I see my friends and strangers
I see their freedom
their total unawareness
and I think
my God
it must be nice to controllably
lose control
I walk away and know
that it doesn’t matter
where I go
because in my mind
I’m still outside the bar
looking in

 

Greg Yerumyan holds a BA in English and Political Science from UC Davis and is pursuing an MA in English at Chapman University. His poetry has appeared in Westwind, The Allegheny Review, and Z Publishing’s California’s Best Emerging Poets: An Anthology, among other publications. He works as a writing tutor at Chapman and Fullerton College.

 

 

 

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