Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 2
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My next poem
will have gunfire
bank tellers and
fortune tellers
will all “pack heat”
My next poem
will have seeing-eye dogs
that can translate Español
also a lunch break
a guitar solo
a conversation with God
and Her husband
My next poem will probably
not be published either
But it will have
an anti-hero
stuntmen
stuntwomen
a laugh track
good sex
and a dramatic pause
In my next poem
the Boy Scouts will
sack the city at night
using hatchets and pocket knives
when they need to