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PORTSIDE CULTURE

A CALLING  
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Leslie Simon

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_ Poet Leslie Simon gathers a cacophony of voices, some warlike, some
not, surveying the present devastation. _

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they called it a bad warthey called it the good war they said we
wonthey said we almost didthey said we never wouldthey said we never
should have called it a war

some said it costone president his lifeand another, his presidency

they called that war a dirty warthey called rape a war crimethey
called war crimes, rapethey called war a crimethey called that
neighborhood a war zone

they zoned it for rosesbut it explodedso they called it dead they
called it off

and by the beach poisoned by warheads they called your name and you
looked back one war torn day

and wept

 

_Leslie Simon grew up on Chicago's South Side and founded Poetry for
the People at City College of San Francisco in 1975. Her publications
include Jazz/ is for white girls, too  (Poetry for the People), i
rise/ you riz/ we born (Artaud's Elbow), High Desire (Wingbow Press),
Collisions and Transformations (Coffee House Press), A Music I No
Longer Heard: The Early Death of a Parent, with Jan Johnson Drantell
(Simon and Schuster), and The Divine Comic (Spuyten Duyvil
Publishing)._ 

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