Arsenic Lobster
poetry journal |
Issue Thirteen Spring 2007 |
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In Defense of Richard's Dementia Jess Wigent He recites dissertations on jealous lizards Frozen poles cover ancient ice Here now is century upon century of winter He assaults a social worker They've taken away his shoelaces The life of a storm is measured in days Medicaid sent collections for his books, his guitar A glacier inches towards the sea Moves on once more to decay in the Atlantic He swears meteorologists have responsibilities (When they find him) they will hang him from the elms The Germans poison his pills Because they follow him, he punches them Everyone suffers weather To protect himself, a butter knife in his pocket In his dreams: for 470,000 years A mantle of glaciers covers the Earth |
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About Jess Wigent |