by John E. Carroll
Water, cold cold water
turning the lips sickly blue
lovely hue
surfboarding
sailboarding
skimboarding
waterboarding
Cheney’s recreation--
dude!
a deluge of water
pouring, relentlessly
mercilessly on cue
The truth about 9/11
would emerge
from murky, layered depths
if Cheney were waterboarded
John E. Carroll teaches literature and critical theory at California State University, Stanislaus. He has published poems in various journals and little magazines, including Big Moon, College English, Indigena, TalkArts, among others. He is completing a collection of poems about American Indians and his Choctaw heritage.
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