{"id":14359,"date":"2018-03-26T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/?p=14359"},"modified":"2018-03-28T13:51:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T18:51:44","slug":"divination-u-s-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/14359","title":{"rendered":"Divination, U.S.A."},"content":{"rendered":"

Always the boys who stick the Black
\nCat firecracker into the cat\u2019s anus
\n________________<\/span>or the cat into the mailbox to bang
\n________________<\/span>with Louisville Sluggers. The boys<\/p>\n

who stalk and lie low to spring, pop
\na tight ass<\/em>, who fist our soft spots,
\n________________<\/span>puppy pinch our necks, who make
\n________________<\/span>us kneel and choke on make-believe<\/p>\n

cocks for the gawkers (for every boy
\na gawker). And the different boy turns
\n________________<\/span>out not so different. He waits between
\n________________<\/span>our bus stops and homes, acid-washed<\/p>\n

jean jacket magic markered with rape
\ncartoons, stiff hairdo basically a mace,
\n________________<\/span>fuming dad\u2019s Old Spice. He bear hugs
\n________________<\/span>and whispers Take it<\/em> (like a boy), tosses<\/p>\n

up a blade that will never fall back
\nstraight, but we flinch since the boy
\n________________<\/span>thinks all or nothing the zero sum
\n________________<\/span>of penetration. Burrow for the root<\/p>\n

of bro, of prep, of hood, of the Silicon
\nboy, CEO, the close mentor whose pen
\n________________<\/span>edits our stories, multiply the categories
\n________________<\/span>of boy who grows up to zip up genitalia<\/p>\n

taunts like needle prick<\/em> and meat<\/em>
\nwallet<\/em> into rich cologne woos
\n________________<\/span>that gag a room. O boys, we squat
\n________________<\/span>beneath your porches. We find ways<\/p>\n

to hack your guarded foundations
\nand let our sharp insurgencies of air
\n________________<\/span>hex you. We curate the wounded
\n________________<\/span>art of memory. We retool your fetishes<\/p>\n

to resurrect your names: briar-crusted
\ngym sock, hooks, worms in inverted
\n________________<\/span>Indians and Pirates caps, your boxers
\n________________<\/span>stuffed with burrs, sewn up, spiked<\/p>\n

on Buck knives. Dead tadpoles in beer
\nbottles filled with tobacco spit. We drop
\n________________<\/span>a throwing star into a pan of curdled milk
\n________________<\/span>mixed with beard shavings, dollar bills,<\/p>\n

the toilet paper you spurt into, shit-caked
\nfur from your bewared-of mutt. We bake
\n________________<\/span>this into poisonous yogurt, monocultural
\n________________<\/span>entr\u00e9e with side of spaghetti tape jerked<\/p>\n

from a cassette called Girls, Girls, Girls<\/em>.
\nWe place this offering before the picture
\n________________<\/span>of you we glued to a raft of wadcutter
\n________________<\/span>bullets. Your image will sink in the lake<\/p>\n

where you shot frogs. We can type you
\ntoo, boys. Your lots become the grounds
\n________________<\/span>for s\u00e9ances. Our circles amass your silver,
\n________________<\/span>your gold watches, all of them out of time.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Matthew Bruce Harrison<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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