Tuesday
Days been dark
don’t say “in these dark days”
done changed my cones and rods
Sometimes I’m the country
other times the countryside
I put my clothes back on
to take them off again
Credit
Copyright © 2017 by Fady Joudah. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on January 17, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.
About this Poem
“I thought of Tuesday’s origin, its relation to Mars (the god of war), and its significance as election day in the empire of our time. The cyclical pattern, which even a nod to Ginsberg can’t overcome.”
—Fady Joudah
Author
Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah, born in Texas in 1971, is the author of Textu (Copper Canyon Press).
Date Published
01/17/2017