semantikon feature literature
Sep 2005
American Canons
Dispatches from the Political Environment
works
Anonymous: Re: Have a Great Break
Matt Briggs: A Fifth of July
Mark Flanigan: Janitors of the World Unite
Lindsay Caron: Red
Nico Vassilakis: The Flattened Missive
William Levy Poem Crippled Warlords  ||
with Max Skeans Silver Print: The Pope's MiG
Cybil Weigel: Embedded in L.A.
The Constitution of the United States of America
 
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Mark Flanigan: Janitors of the World Unite!

Janitors of the World Unite!
for Pastor Rev. Bill Barron, candidate for Cincinnati city council

my publisher asked
for something
that had
            to do with
something
other than myself.

at first,
I had a hard time with this.

then, the few things
I had earned
but never collected on
kicked in,
the couple of bags
I filled
but never picked up
surrounded me.

all of a sudden
I got tired
for whatever reason:

America,
we shot out
            the lights,

and even God
won’t turn them back on.