Glen Armstrong holds an MFA in English from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and teaches writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He edits a poetry journal called Cruel Garters.
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Trouble Every Day XLIII
We miss that little world overthrown
Just for us
By our mothers’ arms
To such an extent
That we demand it even
From our enemies
Better to forfeit a head
Than adoration
Each adversary must admire
Us and say so
Though we must not
Say so first
The dirt we invade
Must greet our bones
As that missing secret
Ingredient
The dirty legs of peasant girls
Must long for more
Us / foreign kisses
This is war
A marriage
Between rhetoric
And killing
Alone in our little bedrooms
We will have the silence
Pronounce our names.
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