Last Midget Poem
by Blaine Greteman
My wife told me
that I best stop putting midgets in my poems.
"But baby," I said, "but baby,
I make them very human. I don't exploit
my midgets."
And she told me I was exploiting them,
making them as twisted and symbolic
as myself.
"Besides," she said.
"Besides, who made you the little people's
savior anyway?"
And I knew we weren't talking about
poetics anymore. We were talking about everything
I've tried to save, I guess,
and everything I killed trying to save it.
A former Rhodes Scholar, Time magazine correspondent,
and Policy Director of Brad Carson's run for the U.S. Senate, Blaine Greteman is currently a Ph.D candidate in English at Berkeley.