by CAConrad
Economic Casualties
Ailing Corporations
things reporters say in the USA
Money and its
Masters
dominate
the language
first evidence
of power we
continue to
allow them
do you remember
feeling safer before they
said they were going to
make us safe
Hollywood was
eager to control
our imaginations
during the plague
a long bend in
the demon field
persuading us
a black eye
is a story
everyone
wants
some words
cook inside
the mouth
a president’s public
disdain for democracy
OUR
connection they
are trying to (but
we must never
let them) sever
dance out of
position with me
to the tune of
the spiritual
debt of the
united states
we will not
wait for
them
to say what is next
we belong to another gate
CAConrad is the author of 9 books of poetry and essays. While Standing in Line for Death (Wave Books), won a 2018 Lambda Book Award. They also received a 2019 Creative Capital grant as well as a Pew Fellowship in the Arts Award, the Believer Magazine Book Award, and the Gil Ott Book Award. They regularly teach at Columbia University in New York City, and Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam. Please view their books, essays, recordings, and the documentary The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films) online at this site.