25 October 2006

LOOK AT ME ALASKA

In New Jersey we live stacked
1,134.4 persons per square mile,
frozen in a block of humanity.

In American Russia, where no
road leads to the capital,
1.1 people per square mile

breath fresh, Alaskan Air.

7 comments:

Stephen Imperato said...

and the vast majority of new jersey's population is concentrated in the northern half of the state. cut the state in half, and its density would be doubled.

Stephen Imperato said...

new jersey is the only state where every one of its counties is categorized as urban.

Stephen Imperato said...

new jersey is the country's most affluent state.

Stephen Imperato said...

today, new jersey joined massachusetts as the supreme court ruled that a ban on gay marriage is unconstitutional.

while people married in massachusetts (gay or straight) must be taxpaying residents of that state, new jersey has no such law.

go civil rights, go.

silverline said...

all i was trying to do was get a blog hit in alaska...

ehammelshaver said...

go civil rights, GO! and yes, please, let's get a hit in alaska.

i like the form this poem takes, how it's stacked (like new jersey) but the last line is separated and open (like alaska). three cheers for poems about states.

silverline said...

W could be ambitious and start writing state poems--like sufjan stevens's albumns about states!

2 down, 48 to go.