Daily Archives: September 22, 2009

The Remarkable

In the middle of
the infield
during a stock-car race,

he lifts his camera
from the roaring before him
and snaps several shots

of barbed wire
atop a chain-link fence
with the blue sky behind it.

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Pronouncing Worcester

Yeah,

it’s spelled weird

You pronounce it
“Wistah”

Easier to say

with a cigarette in your mouth
and a chip on your shoulder

Give it the strongest grit you can offer
in the face of the unrelenting
derision

Remember

the “Wist”
is for
wistfulness

a wish for it to be
something else

the “Ah” is for
“Ah,
whatever…
it is what it is”

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