Adam Malinowski
Spectacular Politics
Pigs will not go gently into the night. We rot, brine, & riot within plantation wire—cement and bone, lit up
on the crooked asphalt. Dazed eyes like leaded nights are dangerous resources, blighted and burned.
O soldier! please welcome our parade thru sewers, moldy streets & airport security. Shot dead in the Grand
Tetons, members of the #Resistance pile up like mountains of trash, Dunkin Donuts & spilled motor oil.
Intoxicated laboratories of fish scales, stem cells, OxyContin & crystal meth fed to federal workers &
Honduran housekeepers keep us afloat. Shot in the head during a protest by the sea. Blood spills from your
rotting mouth.
Poems by Adam Malinowski have appeared in Poets Reading the News, Philosophical Idiot, and in Mirage #5/Period(ical) #6. They hold an MA in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University, live in Detroit, and facilitate a poetry workshop at Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility in Ypsilanti, Mich.
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