The Iowa Review
Volume 26
Issue 2 Summer
1996
Edge City
James Tate
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Article 90
T?te
James
Edge
City
At
intersection,
the
stood
and
as a moose,
cool
a
supernatural
being,
I waved
but did not honk.
He
or she was
but
delicate
no
cosmic
bum,
and well-grouped.
ferment
eschatological
A great
was at work.
Ah, there's Lavinia
a parking-meter,
she's not for sale,
over
draped
though
she told me
that herself.
there's Ore with
And
his face
He still lives
like a pincushion.
in the Carboniferous
Period.
And
are three hominids
there
Pizza.
entering Antonio's
are
and
will
have
tiny
They
on
one
another's
to be noticed
And
shoulders
at all.
the invertebrates
are back
themselves
in town
asking to be counted.
A great eschatological
On my way to a very
and
had
careers
have
people
the likes of which
of these
I can barely
Cop a plea,
Little
ferment,
ancient
yes.
shrine
about Cleopatra's
thinking
it been shorter.
Most
Can't
to stand
wait
boyo
imagine.
cop a nod,
to go
saying,
nose
big plans,
that kind
of thing.
to the cold-meat
Pass
party.
the buddha, please.
190
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