Earth Apples by Edward Abbey

Author:Edward Abbey [Abbey, gEdward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7953-1754-5
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Published: 1994-11-14T16:00:00+00:00

One Thing at a Time, for Christ’s Sake

(October, 1962—Hoboken)

If we consider the sunflowers

in the railroad yards of Hoboken

we cannot, fairly, account for the grace

of the traffic converging in ranks

under armor and bellowing down

on the cops at the tunnel gates

and the music under the skirt

of a black-stockinged blonde walking home

from the factory doorway here.

So—? We take time out to approve

(if the barrage of noise will permit us

—that roar from the gun-barrel sky)

of the papers to be signed in quadruplicate,

the scream of the sirens, wine

on the rock of Weehawken, shipwreck and bricks,

sea-wrack and garbage cans,

TV dinners and indigestible love,

while steak floats on sweat and blood

where the brown boy slipped on the grease

on the road and the bus

(the driver makes change between fits

of scratching his scrotum)

crunches bumpily (brief scream)

over the body, rib cage and skull

smashed flat as a dog on the freeway,

and of course the crowd gathers

—why not?—to adore, drawn by the smell

of blood, and the money, where warriors grunt

like hogs hanging from hooks

in slaughterhouse chutes,

on a smoky day in July.

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