Cri de Coeur [by Jim Cummins]

Oy vey, my country!  I would sob if it weren’t such … an American crisis: goofy, headstrong, distracted, with a bunch of old men in dark suits running around looking for their mommies.  And we’re poets: what do WE know?

— Jim Cummins

from the archive; first posted October 3, 2008

       

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