A [PANK] Blog guest series for National Poetry Month

PATRIOT ACT

Acts of congress are necessary
to preserve the perfect union intact.
So why do some folks, so contrary,
think Acts of Congress are necessary
to mandate who may pair off, marry?
Listen: we the people fuck;
these acts of congress are necessary
to preserve the perfect union intact.

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Heidi Czerwiec is a poet, essayist, translator, and critic who teaches at the University of North Dakota and is poetry editor at North Dakota Quarterly. She is the author of three chapbooks, including Self-Portrait as Bettie Page, and the forthcoming A Is For A-ké, The Chinese Monster. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Waxwing, and Able Muse, and you can visit her at heidiczerwiec.com