Adams, Edward

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Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal Volume 10 Issue 2 Article 6 January 2011 Double X (Language, Violence) Edward Adams Follow this and additional works at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate Recommended Citation Adams, Edward (2011) "Double X (Language, Violence)," Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal: Vol. 10: Iss. 2, Article 6. Available at: https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol10/iss2/6 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). It has been accepted for inclusion in Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal by an authorized editor of The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB). For more information, please contact ORB@binghamton.edu. H ARP UR PALATE DOUBLE X (LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE) Edward Adams -after "Siena Dos Equis," 1975, by Susan Rothenberg A horse boxed in, all pink and wrong in ways chat slide beneath your skin and wair, cooler than body temp. This is no C rayola pink. This is pink's troubled cousin, pink gone bad , pink home weary from years of heavy travel. This pink cells things you don't want to hear. And don't ger coo close co chat horse. He lost his tail somewhere, other parts are missing, but he's sri ll plenty horse. Look at chose feclocks, cocked like hammers on Buncline forty-fives. What really gees you, though, is rhac head. Noc the one you see calm and gencle, rhac's a mask char doesn't fie, doesn't quite cover rhe pcoco-head, rhe fainter head, rhe one thrust forward , 12 1Adams: Double X (Language, Violence)Published by The Open Repository @ Binghamton (The ORB), 2011che one with large bared ceech, che one you need to stay away from. So you pay close accention co chose bars between you and the horse and stagger back a couple of feet when you see: che bars don't fie. They don't meet at the corners. They're not even. They were ch rown up in haste. They look briccle, old. You wonder if they'll hold. 13 2Harpur Palate: a Literary Journal, Vol. 10, Iss. 2 [2011], Art. 6https://orb.binghamton.edu/harpurpalate/vol10/iss2/6

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