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For Country
- Callaloo
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 23, Number 4, Fall 2000
- p. 1367
- 10.1353/cal.2000.0179
- Article
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For Country
Jeffery Renard Allen
Country
You wink at women through a
cracked BMW window
trim your nails with a straight razor
pitch pennies through a wreath of reefer smoke
You hiss the concrete with your summer piss
Drink the best blood
Eat the damndest bread
Country
Your tongue in Buddha's belly
You jus tappin a blues on the Sphinx's toe
Jeffery Renard Allen is author of Harbors and Spirits (poems), Rails Under My Back (fiction), and Stellar Places (poems, forthcoming from Moyer Bell). He is an associate professor of English at Queens College of the City University of New York.
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