Adam Malinowski
Dawn
Dead water PFAFs blooming with gasoline algae & glass
The Eros of moving bodies camped out in the square
Damn careerist! He just watched the RBG movie in a Saturn Aura
(quick, warm breaths, please). Paying off anarchist corporations,
communists advocating reform nowadays. The last remaining centrist mother
-fucker opposed to de-segregation. A bunch of failing enterprises—
amnesiac deja-vus sapient cigarette crimes you arrogant bastard if only
you were to make the world in the shape of all these big words, but no
you left the world only to enter the world again anew
but then you got cancer of the leg!
Now, in 2019, as I am translating your poem, the failure of the imagination
has been fully realized by policy-maker donor-class elites & the Wall’s
GoFundMe is over $1 mil. My favorite song Television’s See No Evil
is on the jukebox as I tear up in this ratty dive.
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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