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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 Daldorph teaches at the University of Kansas and Douglas County Jail. He edits Coal City Review. His most recent book of poetry: Ice Age/Edad de Hielo (Irrupciones P, 2017).
Poets Resist
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 22, 2019
Edited by Jemshed Khan
May 22, 2019
Pig
That’s what the General looks like.
“You think I look like a pig?” he says in good English.
“No, no, of course not,” I say.
“Then that makes you, my friend, an exception. People call me The Pig.
I know it. They call me that, but not to my face!”
He offers me a drink. I ask for tea.
“On a hot afternoon like this. You English!”
I ask him about the prisoners.
“The terrorists? They are being treated much better
than they treat their victims,” he says.
“They are savages. Savages!”
I ask if I can see them, talk to one of them, perhaps, but the General says,
“That is not possible, my friend. They are dangerous men. I cannot
guarantee your safety.”
I tell him I’m willing to risk it and he stares at me with pig’s eyes:
“But I am not willing.”
I thank him anyway and he stands, extends his hand.
I shake it and he smiles.
“Have you ever shaken hands with a pig before?”
I know when to say nothing.
Poets Resist is published by Glass Poetry Press.
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