national poetry month 17
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The National Interest
Ted Mathys
17April 09http://www.poets.org/poemADay.php
From now on, you write about me.
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The National Interest
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20599 Continued……
We are interested in long criminal historiesbecause we've never bedded down in a cellblock.With the sibilance of wind through the swayingspires of skyscrapers as my witness. When I say cover your grenades I mean it's going to rain I meanthere is mischief in every filibuster of sun.
We are interested in rigorously arranging emotions by color as we've never been fullydivested of blues. With drinking till my fingernailshurt as my witness, with hurt as my witness.When I say be demanding I mean be fullyindividual while dissolving in the crowd.
We are interested in characters who murder because we've never committed it or to it. With an origami frog in a vellum crown spinning on a fishing line from the ceiling as my witness.When I say please kneel with me I mean between every shadow and sad lack falls a word.
We are interested in ceaselessly setting floor joists because we've never pulled a pole barn spike from a foot. With bowing to soap your ankles in the shower as my witness, lather as my witness. When I say did you see the freckle in her iris I mean the poem must reclaim the nature of surveillance.
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We are interested in possessing others who possessthat which we possess but fear losing in the future.With a fork as my witness. A dollop of ketchup,hash brown, motion, with teeth as my witness.When I say you I don't mean me I don't meanan exact you I mean a composite you I mean God.
We are interested in God because we can't possess God, because we can't possess you. With a scrum of meatheads in IZOD ogling iPodsas my witness, technological progress as my witness.When I say no such thing as progress in art I mean"These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
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We are interested in ambivalence as ribcagesresist being down when down, up when up.With the swell of the argument and the momentbefore forgiveness as my witness. When I say poweris exclusion I mean a box of rocks we don'tdesire to deduce I mean knowing is never enough.
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The National Interest
Ted Mathys is the author of The Spoils (Coffee House Press, 2009) and Forge (Coffee House Press, 2005). Originally from Ohio, he lives in Boston.
Ted Mathys
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National Poetry Month is a month-long, national celebration of poetry established by the Academy of American Poets. The concept is to widen the attention of individuals and the media� to the art of poetry, to living poets, to our complex poetic heritage, and to poetry books and journals of wide aesthetic range and concern.
National Poetry Month
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