Bamboo Growing Inside a Big Glass Front

Bamboo Growing Inside a Big Glass Front

I smoke a cigar outside

the Marshall Federal

Judiciary Building.

D.C. reflects in its five-

story atrium, with its

lush forty-foot-high

bamboo: seagulls swirl

the majestic grandeur

of Union Station

and epic statues that

take no prisoners

--meanwhile, in Bagram,

a suicide bomber tries

to blow up Vice President

Dick Cheney. I remember

on Halloween how

a man disguised

as a banana navigated

the metal detectors

to the guards' laughter.

Christopher T. George

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