Steven Schroeder | peacework


Adams and Dearborn, old guy
disheveled as I

waves a handbill
three days before
the third anniversary of the present war,
drones impeach impeach impeach
impeach
.

I smile and pass, take
nothing, then turn
and put a hand on his

shoulder: I think you should add Cheney,
Hastert, Stevens, Rice, Snow,
Rumsfeld, Gonzales, all the way
down, all the way
down.

I know I know I
know. They

pay me to say
impeach George Bush. I
do what I’m told...

I shake my
head, turn, no
leaflet still

...until
I get rid of all
these
, he

says. Piecework.

I stuff one in my pocket so
he’ll get paid, walk on.

Wars run together.

Chicago
March 2006