M.R. Mandell

Melrose

I signed a one-year lease fifteen years ago, / but 3,497 auditions later, I’m still here.

Demi Moore Sighting in Brentwood

for Nicole Brown Simpson, murdered June 12, 1994

Dorothy Parker at the Algonquin

Suitors stare across the bar, singing sonnets with their eyes, as if praying for one last deadly line.

When You're In Love With a Poet

Wind bristles my bones as I shiver through our vacant city.

Sad Girls of Instagram

after "Song for Sad Girls" by Kim Addonizio