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WHOSOEVER
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Elizabeth Scanlon
Whosoever Whole
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_ Poet Elizabeth Scanlon asks "what is this a culture of," and finds
the usual answers wanting, leaving it up to the rest of us to make
better choices. _
, Cover Art: Original Teeth by Joey Sweeney
What is this a culture of?
We do not ask enough.
Car culture failed--
Suburbia failed--
too much for too little--
it is another today today and we know
the founding fathers were liars.
_We have to consciously study how to be tender
with each other_, Audre said.
Where is that school?
Who will you be?
The offices of the principals play blameless & beige.
The receptionists had little pink pads that said
_while you were out_
this dream city of gloss & stress bled
into sprawl, it was already failing in the '80s
when it was dominant but diseased, like CEOs everywhere.
I know it is too much to say so!
(The heart is a muted trumpet.)
Still life: lay your burden down in the room
quietly alone with your gun & your car keys,
American,
probing the wound of your own mess--
I call and call, you never answer.
_Elizabeth Scanlon is the Editor-in-Chief of The American Poetry
Review. She is the author of Whosoever Whole
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and Lonesome Gnosis. Her poems have appeared in many magazines,
including Poetry Ireland, Poetry London, and others. She lives in
Philadelphia. _
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