Malik Jones is an electrical engineer from Juneau, Alaska and former aircraft electrician in the Air Force National Guard. His poetry can be found in the Rising Phoenix Review, the 2024 One Page Poetry Anthology, SoFloPoJo, and in his debut collection, As You Were. Don’t call it instapoetry @malikjonespoetry.

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C’est La Vie

By MALIK JONES

First fell the angels.
Second fell their father.