Marc Olmsted's poem "Could Be"
Marc Olmsted has appeared in City Lights Journal, New Directions in Prose & Poetry, New York Quarterly , The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry and a variety of small presses. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including What Use Am I a Hungry Ghost? , which has an introduction by Allen Ginsberg. Olmsted's 25 year relationship with Ginsberg is chronicled in his Beatdom Books memoir Don't Hesitate: Knowing Allen Ginsberg 1972-1997 - Letters and Recollections , available on Amazon. For more of his work, http://www.marcolmsted.com/ Could Be Could be Tibet chased out by Mao Could be America scalped by the settlers Could be Cambodia lined up & shot Could be Selma - club cracking my skull Could be collateral damage - drone’s white silent flash (now a wedding shoe with a stump) Could be Rwanda shot by a child Could be Dachau dreaming of bread Could be a kitten in Ukraine under rubble Could be an insect a tiny fish a baby rat Could be alive in th...