Poem-a-Day April 24: Pocket-Sized Indian

Hello Friends —

1) If you're in the Bay Area, don't miss the opportunity to hear today's poet Sherman Alexie at Stanford, for FREE and open to the public, tomorrow Friday April 25 at 7:30pm.

2) Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day! #pocketpoem For more details on the meaning of this holiday and its origins, see my April 2013 ramble on why pair poems with pockets here. You can also download my own PDF of the pocket-sized poems I'll be passing out on street corners this weekend, all ready for you to print at home for your own distribution purposes!

Heretofore the dihedral angle formed by 1) and 2) gives us a 90-degree chance that today's selection is a pocket-sized poem by Sherman Alexie.

Enjoy.
Ellen

 
Aware, Unaware

Be quick now and pull to the roadside
Because bad drivers don’t know they’re bad drivers,
And the architects of genocide
Always think they’re the survivors.

 
Find more pocket poems by Sherman Alexie on Mudlark ("An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics: never in print and never out of print...") and on Sherman Alexie's website fallsapart.com (where the homepage currently contains more excellent examples of the poetic device juxtaposition).