I.
Last night
someone else
dreamt
someone else
went
to Manderley
again.
2.
Call someone
else
Ishmael.
3.
Someone else
didn't know
what
someone
else
was doing
in
New York.
4.
Someone else
can't stand it
to think
someone else's life
is going so fast
and
someone else
not really
living it.
5.
You don't know
about
someone else
without
you have read
a book.
6.
If you
really want
to
hear
about
it
the
first thing
you’ll
probably
want
to
know
is
where
someone
else
was born.
7.
Someone else
cut
someone
else's
lungs
with
someone else's
laughter.
8.
Someone else
didn't know
someone else
was really
alive
in this world
until
someone else
felt
things hard enough
to kill
for 'em.
9.
Be with
someone else
always—
take
any form
—drive
someone else
mad.
10.
Someone
else
had
the white
gowns
and
the white
shoes.
And
every
night
they'd
bring
someone
else
the
white gardenias
and
the white
junk.
11.
When someone
else
has a house
of
someone else's
own
someone else
shall be
miserable
if someone else
has not
an excellent
library.
12.
Someone
else is
not
sure why
someone
else
remembers
this
now,
but
someone
else
is
certain
it is
somehow
important.
13.
Jack,
you're dead now.
You can't hear
someone else
any more.
14.
I know it's only
someone else
reminding
someone else.
___
Text adapted from:
1. Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
2. Herman Melville, Moby Dick
3. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
4. Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
5. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
6. J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the
Rye
7. Gwendolyn Brooks, A Street in
Bronzeville
8. Richard Wright, Native Son
9. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
10. Billie Holiday and William Dufty, Lady
Sings the Blues
11. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
12. N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand
Kingdoms
13. Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury
14. Li-Young Lee, Behind Your Eyes
Noah Berlatsky (he/him) is a freelance writer in Chicago, except when he is someone else. His first published chapbook is It's Fab (Origamic Poems Project). He has a poetry collection forthcoming from Ben Yehuda press and chapbooks from above/ground and LJMcD Communications. He tweets too much at @nberlat and scribbles longer at Everything is Horrible.
the Tuesday poem is curated by rob mclennan
