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| President Obama said Friday that White House press secretary Jay Carney will be stepping down from his job and be replaced by deputy Josh Earnest. ‘It's been an amazing experience,’ Carney said after Obama's announcement. ‘Just so fulfilling’.” --USA Today, May 30, 2014 |
Yes, Michelle and B went out for pizza. Yes,
macaroni. They're in Baltimore. That's
where my mother was born. Well, really,
she was born in Annapolis; her father
worried sick she'd marry a sailor. We're
fundamentally all from Baltimore,
aren't we? We are all on the same page. Even
Vlad. He flew in last night. Staying
in the spare closet. I mean closest bedroom
to the rest of the O's. Yes, he can.
He can recite couplets from the Rubaiyat. He's
a real gadabout from Siberia to the gulf
stream waters, from D.C. to Donetsk. Yes,
I believe he believes that this land
is his land, folks. Yes, two-thirds of Americans
fundamentally believe in didactic melting.
Yes, I believe that at the end of the day, we're all
on the same page at the end of the day.
No, man, I don't believe we've ever met
a Talisman close up in Baltimore. No,
no, I don't believe in direct talk with anyone.
I've lost my water bottle. Does anyone
happen to have a jug of bread, a loaf of wine?
A bow-wow? My water bottle walked off
with Joe. Slipped down the neck of a crane.
My keychain has disappeared, too. If you
see one with rhinestones and an owl and a million
keys, bend down and pick it up. No, no,
no, no pussy cat. Yes, I believe there's a recent
recall on carbon emissions. Yes, over
a million first-time visitors to the website over
the weekend. Now that's a real rhinestone.
Judith Terzi is a poet living in Pasadena, California. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Centrifugal Eye, Myrrh, Mothwing, Smoke: Erotic Poems (Tupelo), Pacific Coast Poetry Series' Los Angeles Poetry Anthology (Beyond Baroque), TheRaintown Review, and elsewhere. Her latest chapbook from Finishing Line is Ghazal for a Chambermaid. A former high school French teacher, she also taught English at California State University, Los Angeles, as well as in Algiers, Algeria.