Thunder Sandwich
#17

Poetry
2 poems by John Bryan

dweeb by jeff filipski
dweeb by jeff filipski


the period of time between sunrise and sunset

the suburb of Downer
i reside in a
two bedroom flat plus computer
with no mystic pretensions

Dickson Tradesman's Club:
red and orange carpet that
no one else would use grows back
after being damaged from a
warehouse on rolls like toilet paper
five hundred poker machines
the Las Vegas of the
Australian Capital Territory

Melbourne Bitter on tap;
easy to say and
after so many they
all taste the same
you find your last meal
back in your mouth
sometimes as a taste
sometimes with peas, carrots, and corn

retire to the boys' room
as a means of artistic expression
i write my name
in really big letters

the houses
finally open their eyes
i close mine
nearly made it to the bed
dream in chunks
unawares of the articulate fox




what we need

another war so start handing out
shovels to dig plates of
continental trenches networks bring
back our common unity and or
function your most blatant honesty your weapons
of mass destruction for the mass another war
to clear the universe make it sneeze
with each exhale a warm renewal for
breath bomb the fuckers down six billion
all with their own fancy universe too many
alternatives in what should be their simple
one reality a sneeze and
blow the man down wracked
by fictional coughs

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