On the Stick-Thin Person Wearing a Baggy Black Hoodie with a Big-Ass Skull on the Back

By Tim Neil
Spring 2020 | Poetry

We think skeletons are cool

because we are so used, so wrung

out. They almost seem lucky,

so dead, so skinny, so peacefully sleeping.

Tim Neil is an actor, writer, and teaching artist from Baltimore, MD. Their work has appeared in Washington Square Review, Los Angeles Review, Ligeia and Grub Street.

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