{"id":103987,"date":"2016-10-20T15:53:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=103987"},"modified":"2016-10-20T15:53:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-20T19:53:24","slug":"face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/20\/face\/","title":{"rendered":"Face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/face.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-103989\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/face-1024x820.jpg\" alt=\"face\" width=\"600\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Helena Kaminski\u2019s poem \u201cFace\u201d appeared in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/back-issues\/118\" target=\"_blank\">Spring 1991 issue<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><br \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Eye is late.<br \/> Got stopped in the a.m.<br \/> Got roughed up.<br \/> Had its camera smashed.<br \/> Rumored shot.<br \/> Rumored released.<\/p>\n<p>Ear taped downtown, today.<br \/> But it\u2019s due back.<br \/> Just press \u201cjungle\u201d rewind and play.<\/p>\n<p>Lip lies back on its unmade bed.<br \/> Don\u2019t shrug at me.<br \/> Where are they?<\/p>\n<p>Eye took much shit.<br \/> Often, reporting back,<br \/> Got cut off before getting to the<br \/> Crux of what it saw.<\/p>\n<p>Ear talented. Talented. Maybe bionic.<br \/> Dogs lined up for lessons.<br \/> The day eye played it its video<br \/> Of mouth yapping about \u201cLife\u201d<br \/> As a School for the<br \/> Deaf, ear burst, and underwent<br \/> A slow, shocked healing.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours say<br \/> Things went on<br \/> That can\u2019t go on<br \/> Within a skull.<\/p>\n<p>Why the waste<br \/> God why?<\/p>\n<p>Mouth won<br \/> Because eye watched<br \/> Ear watch mouth<br \/> Bulldoze them both.<br \/> A writer wrote,<br \/> \u201cThis is where war turned civil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Did the bush, grey with road dust<br \/> Kneel in near-defeat?<br \/> Did the sky mutter<br \/> Its crisis?<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t remember.<\/p>\n<p>Was mouth good or pretty<br \/> Bad? 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