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Dropping like snowflakes in December in Chicago,we have large rewards out. We have leaflets that arestriking and effective enough to turn prisonerslike you, taxi driver, into ghosts. Our techniques areas simple as water and cloth, the locations we bruise.No one else knows you are here. Give us something:tell us names. Tonight, cry something other than Allah.
Tell us names tonight. Cry something. Other than Allah,no one else knows you are here. Give us somethingas simple as water and cloth. The locations. We bruiselike you, taxi driver, into ghosts. Our techniques arestriking and effective. Enough to turn prisoners.We have large rewards out. We have leaflets that aredropping like snowflakes in December in Chicago. [End Page 15]
Susan B. A. Somers-Willett is the author of two award-winning books of poetry, Quiver (University of Georgia Press, 2009) and Roam (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006) and a book of criticism, The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2009). Her writing has been featured by several journals, including Iowa Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poets & Writers, and the New Yorker's Book Bench. Her collaborative documentary poetry series "Women of Troy" aired on PRI and BBC radio affiliates and received a 2010 Gracie Award from the Alliance for Women in Media.
