poem

  • A "found" poem from the World Lit conference I attended last April?
    I wrote this as others were speaking, I believe:

    swallowed fear
    sits in my gut
    needs plucking
    a moral surgery
    saves my insanity
    allows breath again
    fear does too much
    overestimated like American society
    or Bush's intellect
    it's got to go away
    move, relocated
    be plucked out
    banished like Rushdie
    unneccessary like cursive
    I've swallowed fear
    and I've got no plan
    but I found the WMDs
    and I've declared war.