“You Are The Weakest Link”
by Adam Engel
www.dissidentvoice.org
November 6, 2005



 

overhead
3 planes
drag banners
in succession:

“You are…”
“the weakest link”
“…Goodbye”

a catfish
--  mossy-slick as stone --
and other junk

floats oily down the river:
condoms, bottles, news --

proverbial flotsam
of the dirty water
living thing
the weakest link
 

Adam Engel lives at www.adamengel.com. He can also be reached at: bartleby.samsa@verizon.net. You can order a copy or two of Left Out for a discounted rate at: www.brickburner.org.

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