NVN Extra: DOG HOUSE ODE

by Indran Amirthanayagam

I branded you old and tired, sleepy,
your sex unable to rise. I called you 
fool, idiot, champion of dog and cat 

eaters, and I defeated you in these 
elections; and in January I will 
return to the White House. I have 

achieved exactly what you feared. 
And now your country’s in my doghouse. 

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Indran Amirthanayagam has just published Seer (Hanging Loose Press) and The Runner's Almanac (Spuyten Duyvil).  He is the translator of Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia (Dialogos Books). Mad Hat Press published his love song to Haiti: Powèt Nan Pò A (Poet of the Port). Ten Thousand Steps Against the Tyrant (BroadstoneBooks) is a collection of Indran's poems. He edits The Beltway Poetry Quarterly and helps curate Ablucionistas. He hosts the Poetry Channel on YouTube and publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions.