Remember the Alamo

Authors

  • Sal Cetrano Author

Keywords:

poetry, David Koresh, the Alamo, siege, consumer culture, satire

Abstract

In this poem, dedicated to David Koresh, a speaker barricades his house against a besieging mob of salespeople and self-promoters in a surreal, comic reimagining of the Alamo’s last stand.

Author Biography

  • Sal Cetrano

    Sal Cetrano is a poet and former history teacher in the high schools of NYC, from which he retired with only flesh wounds and the odd night waking up screaming. Rare among Mailer’s friends, he was and is a conservative, a juxtaposition the two endlessly found both entertaining and instructive. His work has appeared, among other places, in California Quarterly, Negative Capability, Dalhousie Review, Poetry Wales, Pulpsmith, Kansas Quarterly, PRISM international, Kentucky Poetry Review andPoetry New Zealand. A regular at Mailer’s Gramercy Gym boxing club in the 1980s, he was born and raised in Brooklyn, but now resides in southern Florida, feeding the ducks and waiting on Jesus.

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Published

2019-10-10

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Creative Works

How to Cite

Cetrano, Sal. “Remember the Alamo”. The Mailer Review, vol. 13, no. 1, Oct. 2019, p. 268, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/709.