Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
August Kleinzahler, 22 February 2007
“... the dutiful city worker Brushing the statue with a toothbrush in the night There’s Nixon at St Joseph and 5th Seated, hands folded on his lap, the way he did In the midst of ‘delicate negotiations with Mao’ This is what it says at the base Bless them, Nixon and Mao both Men of peace, soldiers of God The bronze is cold in the High Plains night The eyes ... ”