The one and only Robert Okaji delivers a poem entitled by 1874 and the results are powerful.
“Hunger is Hunger” is among the Day Twenty-nine offerings of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project (9 poets have agreed to write 30 poems apiece in 30 days, to raise funds for Tupelo Press, a non-profit literary publisher). Many thanks to the 1874: First Impressionist Exhibition blog who sponsored and provided the title.
Hunger is Hunger
Somewhere we jumped the tracks,
he said, wiping himself clean with my
blouse. But this life’s all you got…
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