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The Mimes

That summer I punched out
Every mime in my path.

Abounding then, like buffalo
On pre-railroad plains,
Like the passenger pigeons
Of a former sky,
Mimes leaned into the air
At every corner, white-facedly
Shadowed pedestrians in every park.
All I had to do was swing.

Struck, they did not cry out
But only gazed in wide horror,
Mouths unspoken O's
That called for my fists' return.

Some tried to run—they met a stiff wind
That did not touch me.
Some raised their hands like white flags,
And I issued my terms:
Here's your invisible bench, motherfucker,
Bitch, try climbing these stairs.
Try looking like a sorry bastard
Who's been smashed like a bug,
A newcomer to the world of hurt.
They complied, and silently spat out teeth.

Each time I struck a blow
for the populace at large.
If the police did not assist me,
they did not stand in my way.
Newspapers would not condemn or report.


Squirrels presiding on high branches
did not chatter or scold:
I spoke for nature itself.

The calluses on my knuckles
Thinned and softened.
For days on end I would not see a mime.
The last tried half-heartedly
To climb a ladder into the air,
But one punch in the solar plexus
Dropped him like a plumb line.
When he rose—after a time—and fled
His steps audibly slapped the ground.

The streets now host singers,
Musicians and jugglers,
Sword-swallowers on stilts
Who act like no one but themselves.
The victory is total, unquestioned,
Yet all day, every day,
my fists stay clenched,
unfulfilled.
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J.D. Smith

J.D. Smith

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