by Martin Espada
The bus driver tore my ticket
and gestured at the tabloid
spread across the steering wheel.
The headline:
FIDEL CASTRO DEAD
REPLACED BY IDENTICAL DOUBLE
Below, Iwo photographs of Fidel,
one with cigar, one without.
“The resemblance is amazing,
the driver said,
and I agreed.
From:
Anthology of Modem American Poetry, by Cary Nelson
Copyright ©:
2000, Oxford University Press
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