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Holiday in Guantanamo Bay

Chris Butler

Searching for the American dream elsewhere
with counterfeit, greenback green
cards, as a stowaway on embargoed
cargo across an abandoned border,
I pocket the lone key out of Florida.

Flying south as the twenty first hijacker,
brandishing rusted box cutters
for free healthcare with a cigar
and sharp glass catheters,
I spend time on Roosevelt dimes.

Or floating in inflatable rubber ducky boats,
to surf water-boarded waves
in constrictive plastic handcuffs.
LOOK MA! NO HANDS!
as I’m chafed across the barren sand.

Tanning under the blood soaked Cuban sun,
my epidermis burns as leather
masks, stripping linen skin into
suicidal al Qaeda complexions,
on holiday in Guantanamo Bay.



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