amphibi.us

if i were a
laureate–a poet; on the rag
… and was asked

—i’d be darned,
thinking about how

greek lincoln seems,
on all the heavenly pennies;
and ‘roman,’ truman; even

before i scored, moved
that gettysburg address
off the internet

—pasted it,
word for word, into word
and then printed it at work,

‘cause
the color doesn’t run
…

(brother) …
say my parenthetical prayers
… prepare

docket on high and low
tide. bidin’ time …

‘during this
not-so-great depression—
quoting steinbeck &
f.d.r.;

looking over world war
—the korean war, too …

having started my fire
-side chat, i would
transform
from historian

into editor
of our past mistakes.

but, always keep
the drafts
in a safe place …

for generations to come.

© Devin Wayne Davis, 2010

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