DRINKING WITH LI PO.(Poem)

The Antioch Review | September 22, 2001| | Copyright

And I'm thinking America, I'm thinking and that's as far as I'm getting.

It's one of those nights when we're up to our ears in wool and hats

even though we're in the house and there's the last of someone's fence

in the stove, but we're still shivering despite being on bottle number three,

or four, of vodka, a tsar's drink, and I'm eating turkey they've slaughtered

special for me, saving me all the dark meat, which reminds them of sheep,

even though I like white meat best, but I've never been a good guest anyway:

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