Thunder Sandwich  #23

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J. J. Campbell

discarded


here i go again


rummaging through these random words

hoping to find brilliance on the

discarded napkins of our lives


death

despair

pain

agony


the impending demise of my fellow man


i'm pretty certain insanity lurks in

my next cup of coffee

but i don't mind


i've faced the same fucking

odds since conception


with all these years waiting for

the other shoe to drop

you can't help but to eventually

take it for granted


and to tell you the truth


i'll actually be happy

when insanity does arrive


for then, maybe all of this

will make some fucking

sense for once


the voices and outbursts


the urge in the middle of the night to

kill the baby and start a rampage

that would make prisoners blush


and what explanation could there be

for all these jackie collins books


fuck, i hope i am insane


for i'm too fat, hairy and lack

the flexibility to be gay


i'm busy playing with matches again


something about that

lingering scent just

drives me wild


did you know that

the pages of the bible

burn better than these

cheaply printed books?


but i don't care for the smell

of fleeting control


you would think i'd be due

for some catharsis

but my knees are old

too old to kneel anymore


for i learned a long time ago

to never fear the unknown

rather,

embrace it like money from

a stranger


fuck


finally the napkin i was looking for


should have known i guess

i never do get these damn numbers

right anymore


i suppose i'm over-educated

to win the lottery


plus, i still have

all of my teeth



good thing i believe in patience

and have many years of good

drinking ahead of me



living in my stereo(type)


i'm a living, breathing,

walking stereotype


white male, late twenties,

unemployed


i live with my mother


i write poems and

masturbate the day away


i'm not that far

away from fulfilling

that stereotype


i think i may be a few

steps closer actually

now that i have moved all

my shit into the basement


soon, i'm hoping to seal the deal

by getting that longed for

pizza delivery job to cover

for my budding career

as a minor dope dealer


just a few heat lamps away

from my white trash utopia


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