Chicago is mostly wind.
Dotted lines divide neighborhoods.
People arrive
by midsized sedan.
When a baby is born,
it is assigned its own radio station,
but most of the stations
go unused.
The phrase “I trust you about as far
as I can throw you” started
in Chicago,
as did “there ain’t nobody here
but us chickens.”
It’s a joy to be stirring
shit up downwind
from the wind itself.
Dotted lines divide neighborhoods.
People arrive
by midsized sedan.
When a baby is born,
it is assigned its own radio station,
but most of the stations
go unused.
The phrase “I trust you about as far
as I can throw you” started
in Chicago,
as did “there ain’t nobody here
but us chickens.”
It’s a joy to be stirring
shit up downwind
from the wind itself.
Glen Armstrong edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters and has three current books of poems: Invisible Histories, The New Vaudeville, and Midsummer.
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