H e a r t   S o n s   &   H e a r t   D a u g h t e r s   of   A l l e n   G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m   H e a l t h   S p a :   R e p o r t   2 0 1 4 :   A r c h i v e s   E d i t i o n

 

 

JIM COHN

 

 

The President Had Already Been Lynched

 

The President had already been lynched

In a few million minds.

 

Nobody knew if the country would

Self-destruct in wasted splendor.

 

It’s all boiling down to

Certain spots in a courtyard

 

Where on winter days

The sun would shine.

 

 

30 January 2010

 

 

[Originally published in NHS 2010, http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs10/index.html.]