Great Whirl of Exile
by Leroy Quintana
Category: Poetry

In The Rockets' Red Glare, set during a Super Bowl, he writes: "The woman behind me asks her son / how so many rockets can be set off in succession. / You just hire a bunch of Mexicans to run around / with a lot of matches. / Isn't it great, she sighs, bombs bursting in air, / to be an American?"