Sarah Galvin, who just happens to grace the cover of this month’s City Arts Magazine, has a new book of poems out, called The Three Einsteins. It has received praise from some of the Monarch’s favorite writers, including Kary Wayson, who says the book has “faultless logic”, and Cody Walker, who says, “I want to spend my entire paycheck buying pens and paper and espresso shots for Sarah Galvin—so that she continues to write, and write, and write some more.”

We encourage you, dear reader, to purchase/pre-order a copy of the book, which you can do speedily here. And in the mean time, we will entice you to do so with one of Galvin’s poems that appears in the collection:

The Way Things Are Going

I’m intensely ashamed that I’m not developing a vac-
cine, but there’s no specific disease I want to prevent.
I try at least not to create any new diseases, but the
way things are going, I probably will. Don’t even get
me started on the way things are going. This morning
I learned that all living things die one day. Then I cut
open a potato, and inside it there was a muffin.