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It’s Complicated
June 7, 2020

A friend texted to say it’s irresponsible to protest during a pandemic. All those people
crowded together become vectors for the virus, which doesn’t care about race. I hadn’t
thought of Covid-19 as post-racial, the enlightened bug.

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America on the Brink  / poetry  / Politics

Helium
May 29, 2020

The last thing he saw was the joy in her eyes.

Back home the flowers have wilted and the balloon,
twisting slowly in the now-stale air,
sinks lower and lower to the ground.

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Manumission
May 27, 2020

I so want to be optimistic and airy, to write of
our generous spirit, to wax poetic about moon landings

and beach landings, entrepreneurship, sliced bread,
the assembly line, the World Wide Web. It feels un-American

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Self-Made Man
May 24, 2020

I hire the police that protect my home from the hordes
that would tax me: I need nothing from the State, and so
give nothing to the State.

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Election Day
May 23, 2020

I hope it’s not too late to stop the carnage.
America forgives itself so easily, as
though we weren’t forgiving but forgetting.

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On Doing Good in America
May 13, 2020

“How does one with no boots
pull himself up by his bootstraps?”

“Why teach someone to fish
then deny them access to the lake?”

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Daydreaming on a Saturday Afternoon in May During a Pandemic
May 9, 2020

I just read that the virus is mutating, anti-vaxxers are joining other unsavory elements to protest public health measures, the president doesn’t see the need for mass testing but is now getting tested daily…

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On Commerce & Poetry
April 26, 2020

I have lingered too long on the intricacies of bark and root,
of trees as leap into the inverted bowl of a sky I cannot lick,
named comets and coined mythologies while the masters
of commerce discussed business in the other room.

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What Bliss Has to do With Horror: An American Reverie on War and Peace
April 11, 2020

It is late-April 2003 and I’m well enough to bathe. Mom draws
the bath, peels off clothes and bandages. A month of sweat and blood
disappears in eddies of soap and steam. Civilians cower in fear—

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Undemocratic Meditations
February 1, 2020

I confess to undemocratic meditations:
If Bin Laden had sought instead
to save the world,
what would he have hijacked?

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