expensive taste

I fell asleep in a first-floor flat
whose wide windows faced the city street. Next door
and to the left, a funeral home churned out
mourners before I even opened my eyes.
I woke in the bed alone
and listened to the slow march
of glazed-eyed grief
make its way through philadelphia
and wondered if such a sound
was worth the view.

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Georgia Riordan (she/they) is an MFA student at Rosemont College with a Writing BA from Ithaca College. They write primarily within the forms of poetry, flash, and lyric essays and within the genres and cross-genres of horror, magical realism, and creative nonfiction. You can find all their previous publications on their website: georgiariordan.com.