New Sheets

Hal Sirowitz

1995

I won’t be around forever, Mother said.

One day I’m going to die, so I might

as well nag you a little bit more,

while I have the chance. And when

I’m dead you’ll have to rely on someone else

to tell you that it’s time to change the sheets,

& I hope for your sake, that it won’t

be your wife, because she’s going to get

tired of doing it, & she’ll…

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Hal Sirowitz

b. 1949

Hal Sirowitz is a New York poet, performance artist, and teacher. He has been a special education teacher for more than two decades, and has performed his poetry on PBS and MTV television programs. The recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a 2003 New York State Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Sirowitz is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York.

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