Because I'm quoting all of this. (For more, check out The Poetry Foundation's blog.)
Poem on the Occasion of the Midterm Election
Dream Brazil is a wash—
too expensive. Dream Antarctica again
and the cold feels good.
And I look all right there
in the big blue coat.
I never wanted to impress
anybody, so I kept it
unremarkable. The plain truth is
not enough now to change
the empire into a flower.
It is already a hummingbird
in an endless loop. No
no, they say, there’s power
still in children and old
people. There’s power in swarming
the neighbors and refusing to
die. There’s power in songs.
It’s we who are powerless.
—Matthew Rohrer
from Destroyer and Preserver, forthcoming from Wave Books
via: Wave Books
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