31 January 2021

Moments of McCann: A Found Poem

 

Family is like water,

the original stream

 

The bottom bunk again,

his slumber verses

 

A grace and a toughness,

the safe border between

 

The fires of the Bronx,

sunlight through the girders

 

Recklessness and temptation

written on the ceiling

 

A colossal illusion,

sawdust on the floor

 

Some sort of revolutionary act,

a motherfucking ambulance chaser

 

 

 

-Found Poem

All lines are direct quotes from pages 57-59 of Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin


22 Jan 2021

 

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