Be Recorder by Carmen Giménez Smith

Author:Carmen Giménez Smith [Smith, Carmen Giménez]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781555978488
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2019-09-15T04:00:00+00:00

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I have to prepare to live tight and court danger

prepare to live on air I have to stop buying

and watching have to learn to turn hate

into light and uncover I think

dance to disco from the ’70s oil crisis

I have to pull my money

out of the faux middle-class race

I’m separated from my nation

have to teach the kids to turn

off the lights to compost shoot a gun

and make agitational film

resist the lure

they will have to be tougher

so I have to mine for toughness

for me for the children

for their middle age

to accept it was long-coming

long con

tears are blood

act accordingly

have to overlook my invented

horizontal rival remember urgency

have to live against the wall

into the future into the disturbance

have to return to a marrow

of language I have to refuse to be

what they are to be what they’ll do

will avenge will disturb

revise and filter don’t want to

still have to

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