The DwarfsAuthor(s): David HiltonSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Summer, 1971), p. 16Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157738 .

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THE DWARFS

Repeated searches uncovered 23

bandoliers of live marijuana.

Overnight a grassy knoll appeared.

Many muscular witnesses swore

they'd fought rock-fights on it, had gang-bangs, beer-blasts,

cook-outs, pray-ins, flag-fests, hair-cuts. "To the best

of our knowledge the Grassy Knoll

has forever been just where it is said to be."

They'd conceived their kids

on the Grassy Knoll. Their dads

had driven there to die. Was it fact

or legend that friendly dwarfs

owned homes beneath the Grassy Knoll?

In that hour when the moon

winks like an attorney general did the generous dwarfs

scurry out unseen to fix and clean

every powersaw and shotgun? When

snipers finally frightened the laughing dwarfs, all the dreaming

witnesses awoke instantly, armed and ready.

Hilton

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