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      February 11, 2012What We Heard About the AmericansRachel Rose

      We heard there was much to admire about the Americans.
      Historically.
       
      Their cuisine is buffet, all you can
      overeat.
       
      We heard they hire whisperers, buy guides for
      idiots.
       
      Foster special needs kittens. Are visited by
      aliens.
       
      We heard the Americans are our
      brethren.
       
      That they keep ten percent of black men
      imprisoned.
       
      Are stockpiling weapons for
      Armageddon.
       
      Believe that all good dogs go to
      heaven.
       
      God bless the Americans. God bless their inalienable
      freedoms.
       
      Bless Guantanamo. Americans sure know how to have
      fun.
       
      Even their deaths are more important than our
      own.
       
      Happiness is cosmetic
      dentistry.
       
      The global dream is the American
      dream.
       
      Liberty is a statue holding a soft ice
      cream.

      from #35 - Summer 2011

      Rachel Rose

      “I write to order the burning world, and to burn the accepted order. I write to make sense out of the chaotic, the inexplicable, the unbearable, and also I write with the desire to imagine things being different than they actually are. I write to share an experience with an unknown reader, and I write as part of a great humanistic yearning to connect, metaphorically and literally. I write because I can’t play the banjo and I’m too shy to sing, but I can do this.”

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