| Thunder Sandwich #17
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 dweeb by jeff filipski |
| THE CHURCH BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD Hostile maverick in a skeptical Camaro Kicking up rocks hoping not to upset The strange melodious joy behind the Closed white doors Fears the inevitable question of affirmation With proud Don't Tread On Me tattoos Biting at his wanting to move ankles while The quiet distant solidarity pregnant with wishes Stands backdropped against the special Sunday dusk and Sticks in his throat l! ike an unswallowed childhood verse Until dove like opening doors scare this would Be John the Baptist Back into the nervous Camaro daredevil leaping Onto the indifferent double yellow lined blacktop While the shaft of light in the rearview mirror Illuminates musical faces at once curious and smiling YOUR ASHES Carrying them around in an empty bottle of Crazy Horse beer along with dusty blades of red, white, and blue grass and sprinkling them in Eden Park because you told me to I'm drinking the fifth of Rebel Yell you bequeathed me with an Ecclesiastes 3:20 high life chaser finding the lacerations of the absence of life too much for even them combined So I end up laughing at the breathing American trees at the fishing hole where you fought Moby and throw the temporal glass container into the river and watch as what used to be you bobs innocently off into eternity |
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| ISSN: 1534-4037 |
Edited by Jim Chandler & Haze McElhenny
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