Pledge

BY Martha Zweig

The nation’s one
undergod glows in the dark. To its immense
satisfaction cover your heart & allege.

Repeat after me, pistol
packermeister & schoolkid of immemories: I’m not
gonna stand for it.
Units of distaste,

privy trough, hogtied public flag about the chinny
chin chins, yum. Ruling classic for all: flog
a misfit for the edification. Prod the glib & glibberty
dissidents up to a dropstep gibbet jig.

Video: Amber waves goodbye &
godspeedy, too. Boo whoo? — you, it’s just US of a-

nother disgruntled grunt’s shock & aw-shucks
AmeriCanis-cannibalis, dog-eat-(hot
diggety)-dog, jackal-of-oil-tirades,
commodieties & the x-change:

hawkitup, yank, & jingo.

 

Biography

MARTHA ZWEIG‘s third collection, Monkey Lightning, was recently published (Tupelo Press, 2010). Her previous work includes Vinegar Bone (1999) and What Kind (2003), both published by Wesleyan University Press, as well as a chapbook, Powers (The Vermont Council on the Arts, 1976). Zweig has received a Whiting Award, Hopwood Awards, Pushcart nominations, and other honors. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Progressive, Northwest Review, Poetry, Pequod, Boston Review, The Paris Review, The Gettysburg Review and Notre Dame Review.

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