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When Trump Falls in Love with a Wild Ostrich

from Currency by Benjamin Aleshire

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  • A collection of poems written for strangers, composed spontaneously on a manual typewriter in the streets of New Orleans, Paris, Havana, Rome, San Francisco, Madrid, London, and Burlington.

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Written for a guy in Union Sq, NYC, in May of 2016, while Trump was still just a bad joke that elitist liberals didn't think could come true. "Trumpe" was a typo, but rather than start over or cross it out, I just incorporated it into the poem.

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from Currency, released January 1, 2018
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Benjamin Aleshire New Orleans, Louisiana

BENJAMIN ALESHIRE is an artist based in New Orleans, who travels the world as a poet-for-hire, writing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Iowa Review, Boston Review, and many others. His collection of typewriter poems, 'Currency', is available at www.poetforhire.org. ... more

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