Michele Stepto
Scenes from the Poem and the News 2
The poem enters wearing
its heart on its sleeve
a big heart and bleeding
bleeding bleeding!
This is the part
the audience loves
It laughs and laughs
it laughs its socks off
it laughs its ass off
it busts a gut
laughing its head off
it dies laughing
all the way to the bank
the poem turns
its heart around
closed it says
on the other side
Michele Stepto (with her son Gabriel) is the translator of Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World (Beacon Press, 1997), from the original Spanish by Catalina de Erauso. Her work has appeared in Verse-Virtual, Ekphrastic Review, NatureWriting, Mirror Dance, Lacuna Journal, and One Sentence Poems.
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