FOUR WAY REVIEW

An Electronic Literary Journal

Man in green t shirt (Matthew Zhao) looks off camera.

WE ARE ALL NAMED AFTER SOMEONE by Matthew Zhao

 

                   Fight me.
                          —Caravaggio, probably

Caravaggio wanted to be a
          Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
but he was a century too late,
          his name already taken.
I mean, who the hell is
          this other Michelangelo?
The Sistine Chapel doesn’t even have
          chiaroscuro, light and dark,
like the Turtles joking around in
          dank sewers, wondering why
there was no pizza at The Last Supper.
          It’s just lamb or whatever but
I’m sick of eating catered meals when
          the body craves intangibles
like fame and love and some golden gift
          that lets us save others.

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