My best ones are stifling,
The good days, the good works,
I am still not saved
From having to try again
In the future, not released
From doing anything at all,
What good is good? It buys
No trip, hides no responsibility,
With every thing done well,
Comes more questions, more demands,
More empty things
That everyone else
Does not trust themselves to fill.

BEN NARDOLILLI is a twenty three year old writer currently living in New York City. His work has appeared in Houston Literary Review, Perigee Magazine, Canopic Jar, and Lachryma: Modern Songs of Lament, Baker’s Dozen, Thieves Jargon, Farmhouse Magazine, Elimae, Poems Niederngasse, The Delmarva Review, Underground Voices Magazine, SoMa Literary Review, Heroin Love Songs, Shakespeare’s Monkey Revue, Literary Fever, and Perspectives Magazine. In addition he was the poetry editor for West 10th Magazine at NYU and maintains a blog at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com.