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Body Politic


    


Pure product of isolationist policy: no
gross product of atomization
Lean back & kiss your father’s hands if you
can find them

      Idle

Rotate tires for disinterest

There’s this nexus there’s
a depot sprawling in the back of your mind

Time after time I do not raise glasses or lift grudges
This your patriot demeanor

     Break

Play with the shortness of your breath
& the speckled nature of your vision

There is a constant village
an ecstatic gathering
assembled in open wire around your brain a plastic
candy jar for entertainment

It’ll work wonders

for your skin, for the realization you
are about to make, embrace it


R. Sam Ross is a poet living in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. He has a B.A. in American Studies from Fordham University and has worked in law, retail, and most recently education. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, JMWW, A) GLIMPSE) OF), Dream Pop Journal, and TERSE. Journal.