Ouroboros
“Happiness is a sick old thing– / not the chemical response of the body, / but the way I hunger for it, lost / in my own madness like a dog”
Robert Julius is a queer writer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a poetry editor for Ohio State’s literary magazine, The Journal. His work appears in or is forthcoming in Brevity, cream city review, Crosswinds, The Florida Review, The Indiana Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. You can follow him on Twitter @schumaker93.
Website: www.robertjuliuswrites.com/
“Happiness is a sick old thing– / not the chemical response of the body, / but the way I hunger for it, lost / in my own madness like a dog”