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AMERICA WAS ALWAYS PROMISES




errol miller




“America was always promises.”
- Archibald Macleish




So
each literary decade
wears on.

There
is no absolute formula
for peace.

I
am compelled to ripen like
solstice-season figs.

And before me
there is a great divide diverting
its evening-traffic to me.

Poor health,
poor soul, poor in spirit, no hard cash
from the government, either.

I am
losing all my lost years, I can’t
even keep my head.

One year,
two years, five years, ten years,
maybe more.

Out of the Southwest
like a whirlwind, out on the plains,
a hint of slow insanity . . .
Leaving this house
to search for meat, it’s been
a long dry summer.

And sections
of the land are closed
for the duration . . .

Comrades,
huddled in the dust
dead, all dead.



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