ARS MORIENDI (FOR JEFF BEZOS & ELON MUSK) by Benjamin Aleshire

by Benjamin Aleshire / Tuesday, 12 April 2022 / Published in Issue 23

	My fellow members
	of the board:
	In the parable
	you see here,
	if the global south
	is Jesus
	& the technofacists
	are Judas
	& the Democratic Party
	is a weepy Peter,
	& the first train
	leaves the first station
	in 1807,
	travelling at the speed
	of an ecosystem
	in free fall––
	then how many apples
	must we grow
	to escape this Eden
	slipping beneath the sea?

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About Benjamin Aleshire

Benjamin Aleshire spent many years traveling the world as a poet-for-hire, composing poems for strangers on a manual typewriter. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Times of London, Iowa Review, Boston Review, Southern Review, Lit Hub, and the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog. Ben has received a James Merrill fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center, a Bread Loaf waiter-scholarship, and a Creation Grant from the Vermont Arts Council. His debut manuscript POEMS FOR BYSTANDERS was a finalist for the 2021 Kathryn Morton Prize from Sarabande and the 2020 Alice James Award. Currently, Ben is a Goldwater fellow at NYU, and serves as a contributing editor for Green Mountains Review. Photo by Clare Welsh