AMERICAN HISTORY X
for Marina Roy
no mark is so anonymous as to obscure what lies behind it
in science the symbol x is a variable, an "unknown value to find"
the X on my keyboard hides that x, while its capitalization, with help
from my SHIFT function, was the choice of X. J. Kennedy, the poet
an obliteration of his first name, Charles, to distinguish himself
from Boston's Joseph P. Kennedy, unlike the S in Harry S. Truman
who became president where Joseph P. failed, the S standing not
for variability -- the names of his maternal and paternal grandfathers --
but for what mattered most to Joseph P., and that is patriarchy
Monday, April 30, 2012
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