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NaPoWriMo Inspiration #27

dressed perhaps in the sleeve of a plaid shirt

The dead are always looking down on us, they say…

in what was once your house

the bottoms of my feet appearing, disappearing

after which each child would be quizzed/by me then executed by drowning

Read “ Hangover” by Billy Collins.

Inaugural poems

An interview with Elizabeth Alexander, who will recite her poem after President Obama’s inaugural address tomorrow. ETA: Here is the text of the poem. Jim Fisher at Salon.com on the history of inaugural and occasional poetry. Elitist Obama Inaugural Will Feature Poetry (via) 1000 inaugural poets project Former inaugural poems: Robert Frost’s rather Eurocentric “The [...]