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dakota
"I'm 35, a father, angry at a great many things, overeducated, underpaid, deeply in debt, one dead car in the driveway, just waiting for my neighbors to move. Recent work has appeared in DUFUS!, remark, Above Ground Testing and 63channels. Recent collections include "Enemy," a chapbook from PinkAnarchkittyPress.com; "Silence in the House of Truths," an e-chapbook available at Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry; and "Human Cathedrals," a tasty little full-length collection of angst and bile available from Ravenna Press."
By John Sweet
or the first time i taste her
or the first time i
make her cry
the days in between
spent waiting
spent listening to the ghost
of black coyote
to the sound of rifle fire
ripping through small children
and newborn babies
the sound of america
taking shape bone by bone
medals pinned to the
bloodstained uniforms of
drunken soldiers
the book of days rewritten
to make the killers
seem like monsters
to make them
seem more like you
Published November 2005
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