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Robert Wrigley: Two Poems
Expendable
On television a few monstrous men
say my mother will be glad to die
in the name of national mammon,
and by their words they mean to imply
.
that of her heroic demise, I should be proud:
my mother, also me, my wife, my friends,
an economically expendable crowd—
soft genocide our American end.
—
But Where Are They?
The ravens too, the ones who gather atop
the football stadium at the pinkening of dawn—
they caw and caw as usual a while, then stop.
A moment of silence. And one by one
.
they rise and form their three- or four-bird patrols
leaving the haunted campus behind,
until the priest raven perches alone and calls,
in search of the people none of them can find.
Copyright 2020 Robert Wrigley
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Thank you Robert!
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