Margaret Atwood by The Tent

Author:The Tent
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Canadian, Short Stories (Single Author), Fiction, Fantasy, Personal Memoirs, Biography & Autobiography, Short Stories
ISBN: 9781400097012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2006-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Squashed mice were shot backwards out of traps,

brides and grooms uncoupled like shunting trains,

tins of sardines exploded, releasing their wiggling shoals;

dinosaur bones whizzed like missiles

out of museums back to the badlands,

and bullets flew sizzling into their guns.

Glass beads popped off gowns and moccasins

and fell on Italy in a hail of dangerous colour,

as white people disappeared over the Atlantic

in a whoosh of pollution, vainly clutching

their power tools, car keys, and lawn mowers

which dove like metal fish back into the mines;

black people too, recapturing syncopation;

all flowers were suctioned budwise into their stems.

The Native peoples made speedy clearance work

of cowboys and longhorns, but then took off

westward instead, chanting goodbye

to ancestral plains, which were reclaimed

by shaggy mastodons and the precursors of horses

and everywhere

the children shrank and began to

drop teeth and grow hair.

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