“Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs” by Andrew Merton

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Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs1.

A chair looks like a person sitting in a chair.

2.

A mother and child are two generations.
A mother and child in a rocking chair
are three.

3.

Astaire rarely danced with a table.

4.

Pity the candidate who debates his opponent’s empty chair.

5.

Even now,
power rests
in the one we call the chair.

–Andrew Merton,
Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs (2012)
Accents Publishing

More from Evidence that We Are Descended from Chairs and Andrew Merton:

Andrew MertonAndrew Merton has been a political reporter and columnist for the Gloucester (Massachusetts) Times, The Boston Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and a contributing editor with Boston Magazine. His articles and essays have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Ms. Magazine, Yankee Magazine and The Boston Phoenix. His book Enemies of Choice was published by Beacon Press in 1980, and his anthology In Your Own Voice: A Writer’s Reader was published by Harper Collins in 1995. His poetry has appeared in The Alaska Quarterly Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Powhatan Review, Paper Street, The Comstock Review, Silk Road, Third Wednesday, The American Journal of Nursing and elsewhere. He teaches writing at the University of New Hampshire.

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