THE MAD SCIENTISTS AT PROM
THE MAD SCIENTISTS AT PROM
by Anthony Jones
i never thought they’d show up
but here they are—
the mad scientists at prom
we smashed all their beakers
and crushed all their test tubes
but here they are in their lab coats—
ready to experiment on the dance floor
Anthony Jones is a writer and basketball coach living in Brooklyn. His work has appeared (or is scheduled to appear) in Westwind, The Furnace Review, PANK, The Montreal Review, Poetry Quarterly, WORK, Storychord, The Write Room, Orion Headless, and Phantom Kangaroo. He was also the 2007 recipient of UCLA’s Ruth Brill Scholarship, awarded for outstanding achievement in creative writing.