"All Poetry is Political" "Arnold Schwarzenegger stepped
on a beggar woman, then gave her a signed photo
of himself and Gary Soto.
Carolyn Forché sat in a bookstore cafe practicing her
30 yard stare, because spies everywhere.
Walt Whitman didn't hire a hitman nor blubber the words
'heck of a job, when hey what's that thingamabob.'
Dude, that's my heart.
And the funny part is that it's half dead with fear
and half Edward Lear."