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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Brian Simoneau is the author of the poetry collection River Bound (C&R Press, 2014). His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Meridian, Mid-American Review, Southern Indiana Review, Third Coast, and other journals. Originally from Lowell, Massachusetts, he lives in Connecticut with his family.
Poets Resist
Edited by Kanika Lawton
July 2, 2019
Edited by Kanika Lawton
July 2, 2019
Die Hard in the Age of Trump
An overwrought high-rise
on every block, worry
about bodies dropped from
twenty-sixth floor boardrooms
becomes the everyday.
*
There are people out there who feel bad
when gravity tugs Hans Gruber
from Nakatomi tower, people
who claim John McClane the bad guy
for interfering with another
man’s plan, people who, had Gruber
not plummeted, would have no problem
voting him into the White House.
*
In my dream I am handed
an automatic weapon
I do not know how to use.
I am not told who it is
I am supposed to attack.
I walk across broken glass
to a mirror: my face is
bruised and swollen, caked with blood.
*
Every hourly segment offers not only
nazis to punch
but also feckless reporters who allow them
to lie on-air.
*
The plan to steal
six hundred million dollars
seems now quaint, cute —
much more to take,
so much people are willing
to let them have.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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All contents © the author.
