In the end
God will say nothing:
and there will be nothing.
Meanwhile, here
we are on this
orphaned planet…
And I love every
single one of you
bastards.
There, I said it.
Ryan Ridge is the author of the story collection Hunters & Gamblers, the poetry collection Ox, as well as the chapbooks Hey, It’s America and 22nd Century Man. His latest book, American Homes, is out now from the University of Michigan Press. His next collection, Camouflage Country, co-written with Mel Bosworth, is forthcoming from Queens Ferry Press in December 2015. A former editor-in-chief of Faultline, he now edits Juked. He lives in Louisville, Kentucky and is married to writer Ashley Farmer.
