Monday, October 27, 2014

PROCLAMATION

We hesitate herein
to emancipate the trick—but now think 
it perfectly consonant

to admit—America
gets built
like this—every time an Eagle sings

Take It Easy—

overhead 
in falsetto
on a waiting room radio—

another built-to-be
perpetually
almostdone highway

cambered and jack-
hammering from suburb to suburb—so much less
sober

and circumspect 
than the old legend
is—nonetheless

unanimously
re-
branded—Abraham Lincoln.