Schtick by Kevin Coval

Author:Kevin Coval
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry, ebook
ISBN: 978-1-60846-288-9
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2013-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

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the lone character he couldn’t

play was Sid Caesar. he’d twitch

a nervous fit of coughs

thru his show’s intro

Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen

I’m . . . (cough) . . . Sid (cough) . . . Caesar . . .

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he assembled the most talented

consortium of comedic writers in american

history—Mel Brooks and Woody Allen

Neil Simon and Carl Reiner—around

a conference table of coffee and knish

jew heroes who poked at their predicament

their anxiety real.

he came to meetings loaded

with a revolver. convinced

the german general otto skorzeny

would surface in a submarine

on the east river and assassinate him

somewhere along 57th Street

or near a Hebrew National

cart or walking in the morning

dew of central park.

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