Monday, February 2, 2009

A tunneled tale of the lachrymatory

If the pines are the
needles plunged
deep in your back

back where you
left your telephone
tower and all
things still wet in cement

admire such notions
as not needing
for breathing

take comfort in child brides

whose suicidal suitors
shall rise from the
graves of

500 Afghan soldiers
17 Kurdish rebels

two Chinese peasant children

quite concentrated
over a game
of chess.


[Brooklyn, New York 2008]

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