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Lunch at the Rose Garden
by nnenko

At the Bowery Poetry Club's regular Monday night “Free4All” young poet nnenko took the challenge and wrote an Abecedarian for Laura Bush:

Anarchy belies community
Deplorable existence
Forgotten genocide
H-Bomb
Insipid jealousy
Korean leftism masquerading nightly
Oppressed people quietly rising
Sanctuary torn under violent warfare
Xenophobic youth zombie

©2003, nnenko

Nnenko Akpan says of self, “People ask what my poems are about, which I find funny. I live in NYC and there are so many stories, if you pay attention. So that's what I write about, other people's stories and sometimes my own. And when life gets too insane, I'll take a nightmare and turn it into a dream.”

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