Poetry

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By

Alejandro Escudé

Understanding the Republican Cult

You have to recall Hitler

Ordering his men in Moscow

To fight to the last man

You have to think

Of Paul Ryan celebrating

A teacher’s dollar raise

You have to imagine

A Blue Apron box

Arriving on a doorstep

You have to witness

The annoyed brows of senators

As the disabled protest

It is a matter

Of eugenics—a matter

Of cannon fodder

Picture them siting on our corpses

Or better yet

Building a mansion over our corpses

A mansion

Large as the moon

And just as luminous

Think of this when you apply

Ethics when you think

Indictment

Think of this as you consider

The matter

The cult-matter the sliced

Artery the tank

In the museum of levitation

The war on breakfast

Alejandro Escudé

Alejandro Escudé’s first book of poems, My Earthbound Eye, was published in September 2013. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from UC Davis and teaches English. Originally from Argentina, Alejandro lives in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.