Drunk Asshole On a Horse by Sean L. Corbin
Brown children are ripped from their brown
parents a pale man in black robes rides
an empty keg to the top of a mountain
of violated women shots ring out
in produce aisles and temples
sometimes you’d rather be a coyote
chewing tobacco a cockroach in a bag
of cornmeal a fly vomiting on a wedding cake
a copperhead in a punch bowl lice in a child’s
ponytail than a man under this acidic sky
and you see that straw-haired rabid dog on CNN
stomping across an eagle’s nest like a drunk asshole
on a horse claiming a crown of roses as the rest
of the world chases him with handcuffs their feet incased
in concrete a bugle blaring toward an infield on fire
there is an animal inside your chest a beaten
and bloodied dog flinching with every breath
Sean L. Corbin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Kentucky as well as degrees in English and Creative Writing from Morehead State University. He is the author of The Leper Dreams of Snow (Finishing Line Press, 2018), and is a recent Best of the Net nominee and finalist in the 2018 Still: The Journal Literary Contest. His poetry and book reviews have recently appeared in Vine Leaves, JMWW, little leo, and Solidago, among others. Corbin lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife and two sons.
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