Richard Owens Bio: Richard Owens was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. His work has appeared in Aufgabe, Skanky Possum, Jacket, Kadar Koli, O Poss, BlazeVOX, Big Bridge, Cipher Journal, Origin (6th Series in memory of Cid Corman) and elsewhere. Other work is due to appear in Shearsman and First Intensity. The book-length poem Delaware Memoranda is forthcoming from BlazeVOX. He is currently enrolled in the Poetics Program at the University at Buffalo where he edits Punch Press and Damn the Caesars, a journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. Damn the Caesars, the journal Damn the Caesars, the blog Poems: SOMETHING WOODEN WITH LEGS Dreams like fetish commodities have a mystical quality. We sleep. I am speaking now of the Dream in which America sleeps … & it is here that idols appear. Marx tells us the mystification of commodity goods obscures the labor required to produce those goods. He uses the example of a table or chair. Something wooden with legs. Something with wooden legs. My undershirt was manufactured in Cambodia but under the shirt there is only me. Cambodia is neither on nor under my shirt. Puppets & pirates too have wooden legs. I once saw a Cambodian man with no legs. TALKING JOHN HENRY To know which hammer swings well —or which wrecking ball reads like news who have done their time —in stockyards or on the floor of the stock exchange |
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