The Man Who Knew One Thing by Gene Goldfarb

Realized his house was not level

when he cooked his sunny-side up eggs

their yolks staring back at him sadly 

together from one side of the pan,

as if he’d betrayed them in the last

four and-a-half minutes of their

cardboard-protected lives as they

would soon become him and join 

that larger amalgam of being.


Gene Goldfarb now lives in New York City. His loves are reading fiction and non-fiction, writing poetry and prose, movies of all kind, international cuisine, and travel. His poetry has appeared in Black Fox, Sheila-Na-Gig, Green Briar, Red Eft, The Daily Drunk, Trouvaille and elsewhere.

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