Robert Eugene Rubino

Microscopic Telescopic Split-Finger Fastball
  Your past ain’t what it used to be


  it’s become an exponentially expanding simultaneously collapsing cosmos

  with white dwarfs black holes dimming suns marooned moons

  
and the microscope with which you used to examine your past


  has become the wrong tool the exact opposite tool needed for the task at hand.

  Now you need a telescope
one

  of those big suckers like the one at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory


  but you can’t afford one of those and wouldn’t know how to use it anyway.

Robert Eugene Rubino, Microscopic Telescopic Split-Finger Fastball
   From the Depths 2021

A Septuagenarian Atheist Prays, Catawampus, False Gods, Love in the Time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Bluffing, Dear Debate Club Please Accept My Resignation, 2001 An Obsessive's Odyssey, Bluffing, Jefferson Unplugged —The Esthetic Apostle, 2018, 2019
King for a Day —Raw Art Review, 2019
Spinning Shame Into Nostalgia —Hippocampus, 2016
UFO Abduction —Forbidden Peak Press, 2019
Mother Knew Best, Ode to Floyd Patterson —Gravitas, 2020
Cape Cod Odd Couple —Cagibi, 2019
Hollow Be Thy Name —KYSO Flash, 2019
Gym Rats, Poking Insidious Eye With Sharp Stick —The Write Launch, 2019.