a panic on our hands on the fourth of july
two hundred sixty million domestic and two
hundred ten overseas made Jaws number seven on the list of all-time highest-grossing films, adjusted for inflation number two in horror; number one in the horror sub-genre TERROR IN THE WATER strangers seated next to each other clasped hands in the dark you can see why the scene in which they won’t shutter the beach, out of concern for lost revenue the scene in which the paramilitary hunter ups his fee the incessant math, the motel owner bristling at the shortened season in the movie they say the lifespan of a Great White is unknown, but that’s misleading they live to be seventy it’s money that everyone wonders when will it die |
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Natalie Shapero is the Professor of the Practice of Poetry at Tufts and an editor at large of the Kenyon Review. Her poetry collections are Hard Child and No Object.
Tealia Ellis Ritter was born in Illinois and currently lives and works in rural Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited internationally, most recently by Aperture, The New Yorker, at PRC: Exposure, on Women in Photography by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, at The Magenta Foundation, at Catherine Edelman Gallery, by Taschen NYC, and at Humble Arts 31 Under 31 exhibition. Her work has also appeared in many publications, including The London Daily Telegraph, Stella Magazine, Bloomberg Pursuits Magazine, and The Financial Times of London.