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Description
You

In
Some supermarket in California,
We were searching for Whitman
Behind some grapes.
Alas, he was not there.

Leaving
Played a game of chess
In some tragic Wasteland
What else is there to do?
Our barn was burnt down
Years ago.

We took our shopping cart
Filled with various items—
Clothes, blankets, canned peaches,
Sunflower seeds, 2 flashlights, hard candy,
Tissues, Sprite, a soup pan,
Hardtack (which I made myself)
And a sleeping bag, for when it’s cold.

I have never been cold,
Beside you before,
You never mentioned it either.
Those are the nights I realize
That my entire study of American Literature
Has never prepared me for the American Life.

No American Dream has come from
Whaling, living in the woods, traveling west.
No civil overthrow of the government
Will brand you with an A.

You taught me that,
As well as other
Momentous,
Forceful,
Impulses.
But most of all,
You are my incorruptible dream.

I will beat on against the current…
Which way does your beard point?

Description
You

In
Some supermarket in California,
We were searching for Whitman
Behind some grapes.
Alas, he was not there.

Leaving
Played a game of chess
In some tragic Wasteland
What else is there to do?
Our barn was burnt down
Years ago.

We took our shopping cart
Filled with various items—
Clothes, blankets, canned peaches,
Sunflower seeds, 2 flashlights, hard candy,
Tissues, Sprite, a soup pan,
Hardtack (which I made myself)
And a sleeping bag, for when it’s cold.

I have never been cold,
Beside you before,
You never mentioned it either.
Those are the nights I realize
That my entire study of American Literature
Has never prepared me for the American Life.

No American Dream has come from
Whaling, living in the woods, traveling west.
No civil overthrow of the government
Will brand you with an A.

You taught me that,
As well as other
Momentous,
Forceful,
Impulses.
But most of all,
You are my incorruptible dream.

I will beat on against the current…
Which way does your beard point?