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We Have the Technology
By the sparklet of certain ciliates cesium
practices its cricket song.
Am I supposed to be impressed? My smoothie
comes with gps.
Take a left at that crustacean. You—yes, you,
with the crisis Isis eyes.
By Odin’s beard, this is snowier than usual. We can
always burn the first folio.
Go bug a dandelion. You’ll have
the elephant of surprise.
Source: Poetry (December 2010).
Biography
Michael Robbins is the author of Alien vs. Predator (Penguin, 2012). His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Harper's, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He reviews books regularly for the London Review of Books and several other publications, and music for The Daily and the Village Voice. He received his PhD in English from the University of Chicago.
Poems by Michael Robbins
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