me: mile four
metallica, for whom the bell tolls, erupted from my earpods…
pw: …
me: i broke
pw: you broke
me: yea, busted wide-the-fuck-open
and the old me
the me that was thirty pounds lighter
not constantly defeated and
far happier
caught his breath…
felt his stride again
pw: …you broke
me: a positive out of a double negative
I broke what was broken
Matt Smythe hails from the Finger Lakes region of western New York. An Army veteran and lifelong outdoorsman, Matt suffers from an inability to sit still. If he’s not in the woods, or on the water, he’s scheming ways to get there. His work has appeared in Free Range American, Gray’s Sporting Journal, the Fly Fish Journal, The Drake, Southern Culture on the Fly, Revive, Midcurrent, TROUT Magazine, and a handful of other non-outdoors-related magazines and literary journals. He recently published a book of poetry with Dead Reckoning Collective titled Revision of a Man.
What’s happening at VetRep…
Our 2023 Parlor season is out! Get your tickets to our first staged reading, Speed-The-Plow, by David Mamet here.
Voting for the next round in the Hudson Valley Reader’s Poll is live! You all were amazing at voting us through the first round and we would be so honored to make it through the next of Hudson Valley’s Best. Vote for VetRep at this link!
We are currently offering multiple dates for our online and in-person Playwriting for Veterans classes, and our Acting for Beginners class is now being offered weekly every Saturday from 10am-12pm. Registration details can be found here.
Savage WonderGround is coming back to Alexandria, VA on April 13th. Get all the details and snag your tickets here.