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    • Saturday, January 01, 2005

    Foreign Exchange by Mel Glenn

    This Boook:
    Kristen Clarke is dead
    last seen with
    that black city kid
    what's his name?
    Kwame Richards,
    we townspeople are
    good people but
    you were last one
    seen with her.
    Fess up
    weight off your chest.
    Admit it.

    This poem is not to be taken as a comment on the talent of this book; Glenn's poetry is better than that. His poems compliment each other with parallelism, one poem taking the thoughts of one person, running a parallel to it with a very different other person's feelings. We open knowing that Kristen is dead and also that the town has something fishy going on. The townspeople mean well, at least some of them do, but prejudices surface when they invite kids from the projects for the weekend.
    Rhythmic reading.

    posted by Jonah  # 10:26 PM
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