The Friday Poem: ‘How to Make a Terrorist’ by Tusiata Avia

The Friday Poem: ‘How to Make a Terrorist’ by Tusiata Avia

A new poem by Tusiata Avia.

Friday Poem - 3 Quarks Daily

Political Speech Democracy in America, she said, has always been aspirational, the bronze bell of its summons rung by noble oligarchs with blood on their soft white hands— which is not to say that Democracy in America isn’t inspirational, isn’t a flickering beacon above some battered shore awash in bodies— in fact, it’s always both— the opened arms, the double locked gate—which leaves us here together, always separate, never equal, mouthing the …