Tommye Blount | "The Pedestrian"
In this episode of the Get Lit Minute, your weekly poetry podcast, we spotlight the life and work of poet and writer, Tommye Blount. He is the author of Fantasia for the Man in Blue (Four Way Books, March 2020) and the chapbook What Are We Not For (Bull City Press, 2016). Source
This episode includes a reading of his poem,\xa0 "The Pedestrian", featured in our 2021 Get Lit Anthology.
"The Pedestrian"
When the pickup truck, with its side mirror,
almost took out my arm, the driver\u2019s grin
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reflected back; it was just a horror
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show that was never going to happen,
don\u2019t protest, don\u2019t bother with the police
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for my benefit, he gave me a smile\u2014
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he too was startled, redness in his face\u2014
when I thought I was going, a short while,
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to get myself killed: it wasn\u2019t anger
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when he bared his teeth, as if to caution
calm down, all good, no one died, ni[ght, neighbor]\u2014
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no sense getting all pissed, the commotion
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of the past is the past; I was so dim,
he never saw me\u2014of course, I saw him
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