PETER LEIGHT

American Cover Up

I’m pulling up the covers, covering my head to cover what’s in my head, as when you cover up the profits but not the source of the profits, of course there are times when you’re looking for something that’s right next to something you don’t see in America, side by side like the white meat and the dark meat, unexposed or under-exposed, not even covering anything that isn’t uncovered, there’s an argument that we don’t even know what’s covered in the first place but I’m not making it, not lifting the covers or peeking underneath, like a book you know by its cover, if you’re looking for something that isn’t covered up in America honestly what’s wrong with you?  Of course, it doesn’t hurt to pull up the covers, when the profit’s not too much in America we don’t even know if it’s not enough, if it’s not something you profit from you’re going to be lost, one or the other, opening up the money jar like a vault that turns into a tunnel,  I mean there’s an argument that everybody is getting something but I’m not making it, there’s an argument that we’re not covering anything that needs to be uncovered in America there’s no need to conceal what isn’t exposed

Peter Leight has previously published poems in Paris Review, AGNI, Beloit Poetry Review, Raritan, Matter, and other magazines.