#MIDDLEBURY
Tuesday
Fady Joudah
Days been dark
don’t say “in these dark days”
done changed my cones and rods
Sometimes I’m the country
other times the countryside
I put my clothes back on
to take them off again
About this poem
“I thought of Tuesday origins, its relation to Mars and its significance as Election Day in the empire of our time. The cyclical pattern that even a nod to Ginsberg can’t overcome.” – Fady Joudah
About Fady Joudah
Fady Joudah is the author of “Textu” (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). He lives in Houston.
The Academy of American Poets is a nonprofit, mission-driven organization, whose aim is to make poetry available to a wider audience. Email The Academy at poem-a-day@poets.org.
(c) 2017 Fady Joudah. Originally published in Poem-a-Day, www.poets.org. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
