LETTERS
Execution Photograph
Larry Woiwode's
What I Think I Did

ARTICLES
The Fiction of Oil Pollution
"Painstaking environmental impact studies
had all convincingly shown
that dumping the Brent Spar
was preferable to dismembering it
on dry land. But, as so often,
a scientifically informed decision
was trashed by emotive reporting
about the immorality of treating the sea
as a dustbin."

READINGS
Talking to Your Double
"Every time
you look at yourself in the mirror
you will never be sure whether
you are seeing your own virtual image
or my real image.
Frankly, I'm starting to think
I've been talking to a madman."

Unfinished People
"Small wonder that
Roosevelt was regarded as
only a little lower than Moses
in the Jewish working class community.
All over New York,
in workshops and store windows,
a particularly dashing picture
of him in a cloak was on display."

POETRY
English Con Salsa
"In four months you'll be speaking like George Washington,
in four weeks you can ask. More coffee? in two months
you can say. May I take your order? In one year you
can ask for a raise, cool as the Tuxpan river."

Tattoo Poem
"I like to touch your tattoos in complete
darkness, when I can't see them. I'm sure of
where they are..."

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