HIGH JUMPER
Alan
D
never heard you debate
before
never heard you
live before (well
almost)
stuck in your
chair
but
can jump through
the air
plucking out
conclusion
after conclusion
you should have
become a jumper
could have
become a real athlete
an utter
track star
why limit yourself to the law
to the blase life
of a Harvard professor?
when see you debate
I imagine a whole different
destiny
one where you don”t look
anything so ridiculous,
that totally bad.
THIRTEEN
woke up
in the middle
of the night
to watch Alan
Dershowitz
debate Glenn
Greenwald
over the absolute
necessity of surgical strike
bombing
the shit out
of Iran
which Dershowitz won
hands-down handsomely by
ultra cogent argument
and
persistent
interruption
and being
a Harvard Man
this being the University
that refused thirteen
students
their degrees
woke up
to watch
Alan
Dershowitz
in an alternate
universe where
they had removed
all the universities
Dershowitz
talking the same old
safe-talk
shibboleth
the clock
somehow gone wrong
gone
hopelessly
intertextual
telling me it is
no time
for peace
for lying secure
in bed
thinking
poetry
already
on the verge
of striking thirteen
poems 2 die for