What Rough Beast | Poem for November 18, 2017

Robbie Gamble
Preamble to the United States Constitution: an Erasure

We the                           Order

                        establish

                         the         defence,

                        and secure

                    our Posterity,

this Con                           State of America.

Robbie Gamble’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Naugatuck River Review, Slipstream, and Poet Lore. He works as a nurse practitioner caring for homeless people in Boston, Massachusetts.

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