I am the head busted open with the pipe wrench, the one written about in the police briefs on grey paper that will yellow soon and curl at the edges like a new rug, looking by most standards old and quite familiar. I am the white men running from the bar into the parking lot where two black men have broken into a jeep. I am the prepositional pile-up it takes to describe that sc (...)
Poetry
Wrench
—Cal Freeman
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