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

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  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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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