Robert Carr
Neo-Liberal
Protect private parts with a big
male hand. Imagine changing head
garb, disguising children
you don’t have. Take a Xanax.
Don’t speak—suck oppression
second-hand from a safe distance.
Imagine new dark days,
shirts ripped, wine bruises.
Bend for the man—under Ryan’s
Reagan-blue eyes scour skin not likely
burned or flayed. His look, like yours—
water-logged, drink wet crocodile salt,
peel leather back from a whip-welt.
Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth (Indolent Books, 2016). Recent work appears in the Bellevue Literary Review, Kettle Blue Review, New Verse News, Radius Literary Magazine, Pretty Owl Poetry, White Stag Journal, The Good Men Project and other publications. He lives with his husband Stephen in Malden, Massachusetts, and serves as Deputy Director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease and Laboratory Sciences with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health.
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