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Wednesday, April 24
Wednesday, April 24
Wednesday, April 24
OPEN LETTER TO A POLITICIAN What is a parking lot but a great absence of imagination? Columbus when he dismounted & snapped his waistline smugly. College loan servicing websites. A sentence so poorly crafted that language wrinkles with shame. What's real is the stars igniting one by one last night in protest. The wind howling into the field when a little boy with a name walked shin-deep in rainwater holding a small, shrouded body against his chest. Boy with two arms & two legs. Why should he carry loss like this, damp & swaddled? Lord god. Make this poem a wish for his protection. Cross my heart. Mercy life please. Good god grace. Have you ever prayed, sir? Watched a morning glory open its throat to the sky each day? Omar holds his hands out in front of his chest murmuring