Musket

Matthew Lovegrove

 

 

On the night of the election
I dreamt the president stepped
from the white house
with a civil war musket
trained at reporters
who were taken aback
but not surprised
the leader of the free world
was brandishing an antiquarian firearm
and calmly walking towards a helicopter
mouth shut, ready to take flight
until his bodyguards tackled
him to the ground
and the gun never went off once.

 

 

 

Matthew Lovegrove lives in the traditional, unceded territory of the Skwxwú7mesh and shíshálh Nations, works as a Curator in a small-town museum, and has released a series of folk albums under the name woodland telegraph.