Vienna (From Vogue)

I skipped my visit to Vienna
Upon learning a Nazi
Helmed
Its current government.
I joined the boycott
I wrote a poem
I watched Austria
From the pages
Of Vogue
And spent
My marks
On a German girl.

Mark Antony Rossi‘s poetry, criticism, fiction, creative nonfiction and photography have appeared in The Antigonish Review, Anak Sastra, Bareback Magazine, Black Heart Review, Brain of Forgetting, Deep Water Literary Journal, Dirty Chai, Enclave, Expound, Farther Stars Than, Flash Fiction, Gravel, Indian Periodical, Japanophile, Journal of Microliterature,  Kulchur Creative Journal, Mad Swirl, On The Rusk, Purple Patch, Scrivener Creative Review, Sentiment Literary Journal, Snapdragon, Syzygy Poetry Journal, The Sacrificial, Toad Suck Review, Transnational, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, Wild Quarterly, and Yellow Chair Review. He is the Editor in Chief, Ariel Chart
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