Joshua Levy | MONTREAL CHIC

MONTREAL CHIC

Montreal
looks like two chapped lips
slightly parted
on a map.

Take that, Toronto!
Take that, New York!

But Italy
—you chic leather
boot from
40, 000 feet up—

Goddamn you, Italy.
You always have to look the best.

 

Author’s Bio

Joshua Levy’s work has appeared in Oxford University Press, Maisonneuve, Feathertale Review, Event, Vehicle Press and other places. Joshua is a contributor to CBC Radio’s DNTO and has appeared on CBC’s Wiretap, Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, and Cinq à Six. He tells live stories at The Raconteurs.