The News
The News, a poem by Mara Jebsen, a poet, performer and professor.
The News
Good morning, Calamity Jane.
Plenty disaster for breakfast again.
Staunching of blood. Stemming of tide. Not
Enough Dutchboys with fingers in the dam
Do Wake Up Calamity Jane. We are killing
Even our favorites, again. Soldiers & small
Flash-mouth boys. Pedestrian
Death—Plenty of martyr for our
Coffers. or Coffins. Plenty—fodder for our
Martinis—I mean plenty—
Don’t get muddled, Calamity Jane.
Terror’s a river that rises again. Brace
For the hate that laps up the spine;
Stockpile dreams for a dryer time.
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