The Cartoon & Poem Supplement

"Oh, no—"

Poems:

“For Better or Worse” by Megan Fernandes: Describes its conceit a bit too forthrightly in the early going (“Nothing lasts”), so all the subsequent images feel too much like riffs; we get the idea – the city changes. The late-breaking “you” is a classic trick for good reason, it takes the fast-movement and transposes it to romance, where the pain of the idea suddenly shows through (indifference clouds commitment – “you barely make out my laugh for a siren”.) But the last three lines don’t do much with this, instead hammering home the original point again. We get it.