Sonnet, with Redskins
to Sherman Alexie 1. Sherman Alexie, I read that the Washington Redskins are finally going to change their name. This […]
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The First Time I Took My Gun to the Range
I looked at the gun and it fired. My finger was left on the trigger and the bullet went into
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Final Portrait of the Sudanese
my parents sit side by side in the half-light two bodies, a half-world away from me, singing the way only
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In Praise of Forgetting
Forget to turn off the lights and wash the dishes and empty the tub. Forget the standing water and
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Immigrant English Professor’s Lament on Assimilation
Sometimes life is so middle-class normal I write in standard English fucking iambic pentameter except that one word is a