Nightmare Stammering
Michelle Greenblatt
the story that goes untold is a long
one longer than CNN’s 24 hour a day news
reporters have been mumbling
about since January 7, 2000 which was when
I got so drunk I could
barely stand up my prediction was in eight
years the United States would be the kind
of superpower
everyone laughs at right before it’s sucked
into the supremacy vacuum the story that goes
untold amongst the slinging of political
mud: dead afternoon: pavement searing
hot:(this is the part where they tell you
BOOM an explosion)a car
bomb was detonated&the day is black
as pitch the little Iraqi girl next
to him her arm got blown off if
you look you can see
her sister is dead, too. her head
got caught in
the one sparse tree; it was hard for them
to get the ribbons out
of the branches; if you squint
you can see
the hole the nightmare stammering
where do I go? next
“there” will be that “somewhere”
& the nightmare stammers on
5.23.2005-7.1.2005
