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REPUBLICAN POLITICS

David Lawrence

Then we begin again like two dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.
We come back through the ages to telescope
In dated pictures of us in vacation bathing suits
In Lokrum, Yugoslavia
In 1970.
Those days we did Europe on five dollars a day,
Just another tulip in the bouquet of time.
Here we are in the grandstand of the present.
When the athletes show up,
We are gone.
The audience never dies.
We are the future of salt on a dead bird’s wing.
You look positively prehistoric.
I love the way you weight the earth with the footsteps
Of your opinions and Republican politics.
I like your party.
Your champagne has realistic bubbles that accept
The mouth and cavities of time.

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