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GERONIMO'S SKULL Ryan Collins |
If your knife peels my smiling face off my head From this day forward, may you raise a glass of flames
__ This poem was written on May Day, 2011. I have always been fascinated by Geronimo—the Chiricahua warrior, the legends surrounding him (such as the one about [his skull]), and the various conflations of the warrior and the legends throughout American culture. I was also thinking of Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill "the Butcher" Cutting in Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. And how the end result of revenge is often damage. |