Susan McLean

No-Show

Oh no, Godot!
So slow to show.
Who knows how low
two fools won't go
to hold off sorrow?
How cold, how wrong
to con or ghost
hobos who long 
for comfort most.
So go tomorrow.

Susan McLean, a retired English professor from Southwest Minnesota State University, has published two poetry collections, The Best Disguise and The Whetstone Misses the Knife, and one book of translations of Latin poems by Martial, Selected Epigrams. Her third poetry book, Daylight Losing Time, is forthcoming from Able Muse Press.