Amorak Huey BIO


VELMA DINKLEY HUNTS TERRORISTS IN THE MOUNTAINS OF PAKISTAN


Sand rock sun choke stumble – Mystery Machine run dry ten clicks back, this is black ops, hush-hush, off the book,


you’re embedded somewhere near the Afghan border – not far from where a famous football player


died in friendly fire but a million miles from home, as if home ever existed. Fred & Daphne shacked up in Burbank,


she’s expecting, he’s an entertainment lawyer – Shaggy & Scooby share meth needles under blackened viaduct outside Des Moines or Detroit


or Denver or who the dog knows, what matters is you never quit on any of them. It’s all friendly fire.


Maybe not the best plan, coming here, but a reward so tempting – you could’ve showed ’em all, unmasked


Osama in his cave, peeled back that beard to reveal maybe Rumsfeld underneath, last person you’d expect


& therefore most obvious, he’d complain about your meddling as Marines arrived to drag him off in cuffs.


Envy the freedom of having disguise stripped away. You always were the smart one but your glasses are cracked


& there’s dust in this canteen. Night’s falling, you can’t believe how cold it is after dark –


how could you not have seen that everything is temporary?


Amorak Huey teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, having recently left the newspaper business after 15 years as a reporter and editor. His poetry can be found in Gargoyle, Contrary, PANK, Poet Lore and other journals. More info at www.amorakhuey.net.


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