Melissa Ginsburg

Wedding Bell Blues

What do you give
on the first anniversry
of a mistake?
They say paper
is tradition,
perhaps a card that reads:
to my dear last hurrah,
thank you for being
better than nothing.

 

Author Bio
Melissa Ginsburg is a poet by night with delusions of poetic grandeur and soon to be realized dreams of teaching uninterested teenagers the finer points of Kurt Vonnegut. She has studied with poets Thomas Lux and Kevin Pilkington. She has a Bachelor's degree in American Literature and a Master's in Creative Writing, both from Manhattanville College, and a framed rejection letter from Alice Quinn, poetry editor of The New Yorker.