Rensselaerville Library
celebrates National Poetry Month 2026
Today's Poem!

Thursday, April 23, 2026

If there is a Museum of Broken Relationships

by Rachel R. Baum
 
why not a Store of Undesirable Merchandise?
a Café of Inedible Meals?
a Cinema of Unwatchable Films?
a School of Forgettable Knowledge?
a City of Unliveable Neighborhoods?
a River of Inevitable Drownings?
a Mountain of Unlucky Hikers?
a College of Unemployable Majors?
 
on the Road of Imminent Accidents, why are the guardrails blue?

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Rachel R. Baum is a Best of the Net nominated poet, and the editor of Funeral and Memorial Service Readings Poems and Tributes (McFarland, 1999), and the Founding Member of the Saratoga Writers Center (https://saratogawriterscenter.org/. Her poems have appeared in Raven’s Perch, The Phare, OneArt, Poetica Review, New Verse News, and others. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks: Richard Brautigan’s Concussion (Bottlecap Press, 2023), How to Rob a Convenience Store (Cowboy Jamboree Press, 2024), and Secrets She Has Saved (Rockwood Press, 2026). She lives in Upstate New York with her dogs Tennyson and George Eliot. She is currently at work on a children's picture book series about dogs with artistic skills and dogs with careers. For more information, visit https://www.rachelrbaum.net.

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