Disability Ballad

To say I have deserted my post, couldn’t hold it…

All day trucks go by emitting fumes of dollars and social terror,

Who gets health benefits, who does not…

University professor-colleagues with the vaguest of politics…

Early A.M. carried a bird on my finger in the dark yard…

Remember over coffee, Ed Sanders smuggled poem out of jail in his shoe…

Remember on bus, Peacenik cripples frisked because they came home from Viet Nam…

Feeling like a living being…

Remember Allen Ginsberg saying: the world has a beautiful soul…

The nation is unwell. Let us prescribe raging iambics…

 

S.K. (in office at state U, awaiting students…)

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Author: stevekuusisto

Poet, Essayist, Blogger, Journalist, Memoirist, Disability Rights Advocate, Public Speaker, Professor, Syracuse University

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