Lungfull magazine

by Sean McGahey

It’s an exciting time to be in America — 200 years after we formed a union perfectly engineered to sublimate desire for freedom into something antithetical to its very possibility. It’s exciting like going to the deli & finding a laid-off Samurai behind the counter channeling centuries of Kendo tradition into slicing cold cuts. In 1776, we lost the real revolution within the war & in 1976, a few people, John Belushi’s Samurai character among them, were using historic parallels to illuminate the absurd & terrible track we were on. But what do unemployed Samurai have to do with 21st century Americans – and what does any of it have to do with being a poet?

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