Tangled unwashed bangs lengthening and cut, lengthening and cut,
The civilian population knows no more
Than a cellar of pocked Georgia potatoes.
This Press Talk
is
like a ham discussing pigs-
They need our help. He's a cracker showing the kids
The funny human shapes his potatoes have.
They must be scrubbed and eaten
in
their skins!
That's the nourishment! Rusk sets no other condition.
Rusk's private smile that looks like incest.
November 1965.
Frederick Seidel
