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Rub Salt in Your Wound
Home is where you hang your hat
and spread yourself on the loveseat
stabbing a cheesecake with ultimate rage
watching how a huge map bleeds
on the feet of Rockefeller Center
Watching how white desires-
hidden for years in capped bottle of fears
– come out of the genie lamps beyond the polls
and mischievously smile at each other
laughing at all your logic and beliefs
Loveseat can’t bear the weight of your thoughts
You need to pound the pavement for days
to digest the reality that your sweet home
was owned lock, stock, and barrel
by a broken billionaire who promised
miners to fuck up the climate forever
workers to cultivate money on trees
racists to feel damn good as finally
everything’s coming up roses
the roses whose buds will scar humanity
You know this Little Boy will pass
like Fat Man passed but you have to fallow
the polluted fields again cos winter wheat
should be planted in the fall, so come
back home where you hang your hat
Soodabeh Saeidnia lives in NYC but is originally Persian. She got her Pharm D and Ph.D. of Pharmacognosy and has worked as a researcher, assistant and associate professor in the Kyoto University (Japan), TUMS (Iran) and University of Saskatchewan (Canada). She is interested in English literature and poetry, and has published a collection of her poems, Words for myself, in Farsi. Her English poems have been published in “Squawk Back”, “Great Weather for Media”, “Indiana Voice Journal”, “Sisyphus Quarterly”, “Paradox”, “TimBookTu”, “Bobbling of the Irrational”, “SPINE”, “American Writers Journal”, “Tuck Magazine”, “La Libertad”, “Tiny Poetry”, “The Pen”, “352 degrees”, and so many more. A number of her poems have been printed in the anthology books “Where the Mind Dwells” and “American Poet” as well as “Moonlight Dreamers of Yellow Haze“. The first collection of her contemporary poems “Street of the Ginkgo Trees“, and also the newly released collection “Voice of Monarch Butterflies: Middle Eastern Anthology by Ten Poets from Ganges to Nile” are now on Amazon.
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