Meat
Our slum city’s known as Hallucinatory Trap.
Diamond stickpins are plucked off the vests
of — of — of — of — of — of — of — of
And now the truth. It’s really so fantastic!!!
See those haunches? Deserters moving again
against the wind. Uh huh. Against the wind
Poems by Kenward Elmslie are used by permission of The Estate of Kenward Elmslie.
Kenward Elmslie
Poet, fiction writer, playwright, lyricist, and librettist Kenward Elmslie was born on April 27, 1929, in New York, New York. His father, William, worked as a tutor for the Pulitzer family when he met Constance, the youngest daughter of Joseph Pulitzer, the famed newspaper publisher and founder of the Pulitzer Prizes. Elmslie was raised in Colorado Springs and Washington, D.C. He graduated from Harvard in 1950 with a BA in English.