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By Victor Schwartzman, on 02-12-2007 15:21

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My name is Justin Hyde.  I live in Iowa, where I work
with criminals.


//a poetry to push the country forward//

i like to think
if i'd been around
during slavery
i would have
written scathing essays
helped with the underground railroad
and assassinated
owners of tobacco and
cotton plantations.

i'm convinced
had i been around
during the
women's suffrage movement
i would have
started fistfights
with misogynists
and burned down
their factories.

i tell myself
there is nothing going on today
worth
that kind of effort.

which is not true.

i would do well
to become active
in the republican party

use the perception of iowans
as honest and simple
to sweet-talk
a private audience with bush

and

eviscerate the idiot
with a pocket-knife

or

beat him to death
with his mountain bike.

that would go
a long way
in pushing the country
forward.

but truth is
i'm just
a writer of poems.

some of my
contemporaries
are deluded
to the contrary

but

writers of poems
are only concerned
with their own
minor hell.

we're no better than
hollywood actors
or musicians

and

just as useful
against the barrel
of the actualities
drawing cold
and hard
to the temple.

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