The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye

Author:Naomi Shihab Nye [Nye, Naomi Shihab]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781942683841
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2019-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Even your skinny ribbed undershirt

your favorite blue guayabera

A long life of travel ends in seepage

Holes in the skin

Difficult comebacks

The graft and the duct and the valve

Flirting with nurses a hopeful distraction

Maybe they’d prick you more kindly

If you listened to their marital woes

Telling how deft and lovely they were

How ruddy their cheeks

angelic their smiles

My Immigrant Dad, On Voting

As a journalist I copied down what candidates said

But I didn’t believe them

No hardly ever

If you paid attention

the people who got elected

always seemed to be crooks

after the election

Elections made me think though

At least we had them

At least people pretended

Once my friend ran for mayor and I felt excited

I know

I should have been more enthusiastic

Jimmy Carter was the only one I trusted

He saw us as human beings

He wasn’t afraid to say Apartheid which of course

it was and always has been

He got in trouble for being honest

I wrote him a letter

Said he was the best president I ever had

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