On the List by Yash Seyedbagheri

more Michelina’s TV dinners
saturated with sodium, I know,
health-killer scrawled in wobbled age, even though I’m only thirty-four
and there’s pretzels, Lay's chips, barbeque flavor
ballooning my belly, but I don’t have enough time
and they’re easy to munch on
meanwhile my inbox hums with expectation


Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University's MFA fiction program. His stories, "Soon,”  “How To Be A Good Episcopalian,”  "Tales From A Communion Line," and "Community Time," have been nominated for Pushcarts. Yash’s work  has been published in  SmokeLong Quarterly, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Write City Magazine, and Ariel Chart, among others.