Two Poems by Adrian Blevins (poetry, '02)

An excerpt from “Exile Status,” one of two poems by Adrian Blevins (poetry, ’02) published at Waxwing:

All my life I’ve been a stupid little runaway

& tried therefore to like philosophy

as beauty pageants

really wouldn’t work

though smoking yes & beer & sex

a speck I guess.

But dipping tobacco no

& pink trucks sorry no

& no football either

or deer assassination or coons up trees

or weekends gutting pigs

& geese. Which is why

I tried with ideas to escape myself

like ideas are Black Eyed Susans

or mice. But ideas

are not the Mason jars & homemade jams

of the Apocalypse

& ideas are not

the shredded roosters & sourdough starters

of the Apocalypse, & knowing that means

I’m just an old farmer […continue reading here]

Two Poems by Adrian Blevins (poetry, ’02)