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Doug Anderson: Dear Children
Dear children: poetry is smutty and subversive. You should read it under your blanket at night with a flashlight. It is better than peyote. It will enable you to see things you didn’t hitherto know were there. Your parents will get nervous about it. You will say things like “the moon is an Alka-Seltzer fizzing in daddy’s glass the morning after.” They’ll ground you, but all you’ve got to do is open a book like a door and descend the winding staircase down to the underground river and watch the reflection of the water wavering on the walls…
Poem and image copyright 2024 Doug Anderson
Doug Anderson’s poetry collections include Undress, She Said (Four Way, 2022). His memoir Keep Your Head Down: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery was published by W. W. Norton in 2009.
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Isn’t Doug great? He can record a profound experience in just a few sentences.
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