To Your New Address Dear Boy, if I ever called you romantic, it’d have gone straight to your head. Dear Boy, stop thinking what you did yesterday matters more than what you do tomorrow. It doesn’t. Dear Boy, I don’t care how long you stand on our bridge. I don’t care how much gasoline I have to waste. It will burn. Dear Boy, I won’t care about what you write with the ashes left behind. You didn’t have to stand on our burning bridge, making wastelands of your ski

NIGHTS WITHOUT YOU is the debut poetry collection from Alex Marchesi. A common theme in the work is bridging the worlds of vengeful megalomania and obsessive loneliness while standing by as the chaos unfolds. Most poems seek to turn death into a morbid fantasy, a cold-blooded mistress to deliver a final kiss to. Others get off twisting the idea that letting go means giving up, spending time on romances that have far exceeded their expiration dates. Alex Marchesi’s writing attempts to strike a balance between feeling hopeless and finding peace in the quiet, but ultimately cultivates into discovering the beauty within even the most daunting of memories. It’s like visiting a bar to flirt with your demons over a couple of drinks, and watching them start wars beneath your skin, stirring storms in your blood, and letting them guide your wrist across the page. NIGHTS WITHOUT YOU is an ambitious and sometimes self-absorbed body of poetry but offers a glimpse of human vulnerability that most often is ignored.