We like to think we are secret beauties. To think we are big ships. We like to think we arenoticed, in secret, by some keen eye, and it is enough. It is never enough

Frick, Kit

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Booth Volume 5 Issue 2 Article 2 2-8-2013 On Heroism & The Oregon Trail Kit Frick Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/booth Recommended Citation Frick, Kit (2013) "On Heroism & The Oregon Trail," Booth: Vol. 5 : Iss. 2 , Article 2. Retrieved from: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/booth/vol5/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Digital Commons @ Butler University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Booth by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Butler University. For more information, please contact digitalscholarship@butler.edu. On Heroism & The Oregon Trail Abstract We like to think we are secret beauties. To think we are big ships. We like to think we are noticed, in secret, by some keen eye, and it is enough. It is never enough. Keywords poetry, poem, free verse, memory, computer, games This article is available in Booth: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/booth/vol5/iss2/2 On Heroism & The Oregon Trail | Booth Journalhttp://booth.butler.edu/2013/02/08/on-heroism-the-oregon-trail/[2/28/2013 10:10:46 AM]about archives shop news submitFebruary 8, 2013On Heroism & The Oregon Trailby Kit FrickWe like to think we are secret beauties. To think we are big ships. We like to think wearenoticed, in secret, by some keen eye, and it is enough. It is never enough.Remember the Oregon Trail? How our Conestoga wagon made it through cholera,throughthe South Pass, through snakebite and starvation until winter outmatched us? We werenotthe winning team. Never enough.We like to think we are small town heroes, but what small town would claim us? Weare theheroes of this poem only. This poem will not draw back the curtain to reveal anordinaryman at the helm or our true beauty. This poem will not bestow upon us prize money oranew life out west. At its end, we will say good morning to our failure. We will say,indeed we died, but how the west was fun!Promise us this: don’t forget us. Oh, please don’t turn this page. That would be thewrong← older newer →1Frick: On Heroism & The Oregon TrailPublished by Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2013On Heroism & The Oregon Trail | Booth Journalhttp://booth.butler.edu/2013/02/08/on-heroism-the-oregon-trail/[2/28/2013 10:10:46 AM]© 2012 Booth, A Journal follow usFacebook | TwitterelsewhereBooth | Butler MFAabout archives news shop submitkind of ending. That would sincerely break us.Kit Frick studied poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and received her MFA from Syracuse University, where sheserved as poetry editor for Salt Hill. Her poems have recently or will soon appear in DIAGRAM, Conduit,CutBank, Sixth Finch, and Forklift, Ohio, and have been featured on Verse Daily. Kit is the Chapbook Editor forBlack Lawrence Press, where she edits the newsletter Sapling. Kit lives in Brooklyn with her husband and livesonline at www.kitfrick.com.← older newer →2Booth, Vol. 5 [2013], Iss. 2, Art. 2https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/booth/vol5/iss2/2

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