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POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
POETRY THAT ENACTS THE ARTISTIC AND CREATIVE PURITY OF GLASS
Ash Bowen is the author of The Even Years of Marriage (Dream Horse Press, Winner Orphic Prize). Other work has appeared in New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, Blackbird, Best New Poets, Verse Daily, and elsewhere in print and online.
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 30, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 30, 2019
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The plot is problematic — an open border, a Latino
Charlton Heston. He’s honeymooning
with his American wife, on his way
to put a baby in her wherever
he can find a place to. Orson Welles breaks
his latest case somewhere along the ten-minute mark.
He's the border town’s bad cop who brings
the evidence with him. The criminals
are all Mexican in this town, which is good
to make American great again. Mexican
gangbangers shoot Janet Leigh
up with heroin. Off-camera,
she’s grabbed by the pussy. Plot foiled
and Heston saves all, of course. Marlene Dietrich
gets philosophical instead of weepy
when she stumbles across the denouement, a dead
Orson Welles in a cistern of waste water. Black
and white fade out. Five stars. But sad!
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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