02.16.18
Weekly poem on Trump Presidency
EILEEN MYLES
creep
ugly nightmare
eating too much
dunking your head in water
over and over
again. Feel bad
for your kid
all of them
but most of all us
bad nights
when I was young
and drinking pred
atory men
with swollen
heads would
buy me drinks
and want to fuck
me again &
again because
I was nothing
to them and he is
our president
now.
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Eileen Myles is a poet, novelist and art journalist. Afterglow (a dog memoir) was their most recent book. Evolution (poems) will be out from Grove/Atlantic in fall, 2018. "creep" previously appeared in Resist Much/Obey Little/inaugural poems to the resistance, New York: Spuyten Duyvil, 2017.
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