by Chad Parenteau
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| Art from 1999 by Robert Lederman. |
Photo of Hillary Clinton
in white pantsuit, black stripes
drawn on in marker.
Five laptops with “Hunter”
scratched onto each bottom.
FDNY firefighter axe
with ninety-eight notches.
Two copies of
Time Magazine’s 2001
“Person of the Year” issue.
One copy signed to
“Abner Lube-Me-Up,”
the other to “Amadou Diablo –
Now you can count to forty-one!”
Atlas Shrugged book, pages
blacked out, “Truth isn’t truth”
written on back cover.
“Adolph Giuliani”
protest poster, signed.
One envelope returned
to sender. Contents include:
additional copy of
Time Magazine’s 2001
“Person of the Year” issue,
“For Trump” written on cover
in gold marker.
Chad Parenteau hosts Boston's long-running Stone Soup Poetry series. His work has appeared in journals such as Résonancee, Molecule, Cape Cod Poetry Review, Tell-Tale Inklings, Off The Coast, Ibbetson Street, and Wilderness House Literary Review. He is a contributor to Headline Poetry & Press and serves as Associate Editor of the online journal Oddball Magazine. His latest collection The Collapsed Bookshelf was nominated for a Massachusetts Book Award.