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Thursday, March 14, 2019

ON WATCHING THE PRESIDENT SIGN COPIES OF THE BIBLE

by Robert West


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“The devil can cite Scripture to his purpose”
—Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice


We used to say to get his way
   Old Scratch himself would quote it,
but never thought we’d see the day
   he’d act as though he wrote it.


Robert West's poems have recently appeared in TheNewVerse.News, Light, Red Dirt Forum, and Asheville Poetry Review. Co-editor of Succinct: The Broadstone Anthology of Short Poems (Broadstone Books, 2013), he's also the editor of both volumes of The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons (W. W. Norton, 2017).