Daniel Edward Moore
When The White House Goes White
Inside the serpent’s gold sterile cave lined top to bottom with venomous children spread a table for the Lord like a motel in Memphis pass the salt on a bullet through the bright eyes of Selma welcome to the wrist cutting world he calls home welcome to what happens when the white house goes white messy will be his messianic agenda with swastikas painted on Lincoln’s right hand with a big erect prayer from impotent lips Oh say can you see by the tower’s dead light this is America reading braille this is the moment they come for you as you hold your breath in a dimly lit room the size of a shoe on the door’s other side where you stand ashamed in a puddle of regret that so little goodness survived
Daniel Edward Moore’s poems have appeared in The Spoon River Poetry Review, Rattle, Assaracus, Columbia Journal, American Literary Review, Western Humanities Review, Mid-American Review and other journals, as well as in the anthology This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys, And Barbarians 2 (Body Electric, 2004), edited by Rudy Kikel. He lives in Washington State on Whidbey Island.
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