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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
Picture
Tealia Ellis Ritter. Private Pool, 2008.

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.
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