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    Sunday, December 4, 2016

    IN OUR ETATS-UNIS

    by Elizabeth Kerlikowske




    the republic is kaput.
    We have turned our dhabarkoodas
    to the banderas which the Tribunal Supremo
    says we can burn,
    hoping four anos will pass by like manana.
    We live in rebellion secreta.
    Our menschen eat shakshuka
    and after dinner, play mahjongg.
    Only four years. There will still be
    algebra, kayaks, canoes, haus katzen,
    carne adobada and brassieres.
    We are the homogenized parfaits
    of years of einwanderung.
    We have found chaque autre.


    A retired professor of English at Kellogg Community College in Battle Creek, Elizabeth Kerlikowske served 25 years as president of Friends of Poetry in Kalamazoo.

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