from insert coin

 the contestant enters but what she thinks

will be different sized chairs are after

all the same size one after

another, so what does she do

you could have guessed is continue

to sit in them, only none seem

better than the other, so what

does she do is tastes a little

porridge from all of the bowls

only each is still too hot, so

when she gets to the beds she’s so full

of angst, she just leaves, no trace

Joshua Zelesnick is the author of the chapbook Cherub Poems (Bonfire Books, 2019). His poems can be found or are forthcoming in Jubilat, Word For/Word, Juked, Poetica Review, and DIAGRAM. He teaches Library classes for a public school in Pittsburgh where he lives with his partner and two young daughters.