Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DREAM OF AMERICA, by TROY GARRISON


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First Line: Here where the squalling cornets
Last Line: That you might have filled.
Subject(s): United States; America


Here where the squalling cornets
Toss flashes of yellow lightning
Into the dazzling arena
In which a naked woman dances
With the loathsome modesty of the tradeswoman,
Here where the great minds die
Of too much silence amidst the uproar,
Here where the Old World has crept
To lick its ancient wounds,
Here have I come
To find new answers to the old questions.

And I have found
Her standing in green-skinned nudity
Like a young girl raped before maturity
Yet panting with callow passion
To be further seduced;
And I have heard
Her name grow common on the tongues
Of roues, without seeing any shame
Beautify her countenance.

Her body has become my property
And my hands are sick with the touch of her flesh;
Her favors are no longer precious to me
And her caresses are a weariness.

I tell you, America --
About whose head play the winds of darkness --
I tell you,
There is a great void in my being
That you might have filled.





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