Weights and Measures: Book Signing in LA -- April 2, 2016

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Book Signing in LA -- April 2, 2016

I will have a book signing on Saturday 3pm, April 2, 2016 in Los Angeles CA at the AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) Conference. The book signing will take place onsite at the Dos Madres Press table.

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The Custom House

Another age: our greed-governed ancestors

Venture forth, significant supercargoes

Compelling the twins: speed and economy.

They bounded oceans for Madagascar

Or Malay, craved the Orient’s garb.

We watch for their return with telescope

Of brass: pennants streaming, hull stowed with teas

And silks. We dream them into our harbors.

We await tribute from captains now arrived,

Long doldrumed—their ships in need of repair:

Sails split and rotting, spars sprung.

Ascending the granite steps, these dangerous men,

These men unable to meet our tariffs

Curse the collectors of the world, the weights

And measures; their minds unbalanced, salt-eaten.

They sulk impatiently, clawing their daggers:

We’ve seen their kind before.

Once in every while a revolution;

They murder us at our desks: stabbed with pen,

Bludgeoned with ink bottle. We disappear

For a time: there are advantages,

Our ghostly machinery still keeping account.

In the end they always pay.

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Book Signing in LA -- April 2, 2016

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