it’s dark inside,
when you try to recoil
from words
shouted down the hall.
each shout rankles,
stirs up the primitive,
but being small
makes
a good target,
and being small carries
obligations like a cocked gun.
shooting off your own
mouth seems right,
but the flow
of history entices.
what’s the use
of fighting
back when it takes
so little
to comply?
Early Works is an exhaustive compilation of the first decade of the poems and stories of Z.B.McClure. Included are family photos, rare personal photos, photos of 1st draft manuscripts of many of his early poems. Also some biography and memoir materia
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