Ryan Scheer

NO; I'D RATHER BE AN OUTLAW


conjurer of magic

player of fugues

ministry-of-myself random

self-basher

drug addict

who supports obscure charities.

I want to write things that make people think

"I'm glad I don't think like that"

yet all day I stick with them

like garlic under the nails,

like too vivid the memory of a car crash.

I'll make your head smoke like a cigarette.


I contain the Royal Rooster

sharp knife with blood ink

counter of the saved- all those

who hold the other sacred.

It is up to me to raise and raise

stairs to the sky.

You will be a child at the top

and life will steal your head away.

Go then, four-limbs and no-head;

be a politician

or muse of the media, which cares nothing

for stones of reason

and the teeth of a shark among man.

Go and find your own way

for mine is found, but the path

is only for the true

and the hurt.



IF THERE WERE A TIME TO INVEST IN HOGS, THIS WOULD BE

IT


Tuesday-


Finally got the car out of the garage. This was a

daunting task, but not nearly so difficult as it was

getting it out of the living room last fall. We still

tease Mom about that one, calling her Mom Unser Jr.

and such. She knows we're joking, but still tears

up when she thinks of the skid marks on the drapes.

Ah, life got way more fun when she finally kicked her

fear of machinery and started driving.

It snowed about a foot last night, which was good

because we were looking for a place to keep the beer

for the football rally. There's nothing like a

jumbotron and 30 drunk men shouting over a game that

means basically nothing to humanitarian interests. But

that's just me and my little leftist opinions, which

Uncle Cowd kindly defers with "shut up, ya turd" when

he's stumbling over Cheetos and beer cans trying to

do the wave with the neighbors. And all this before

the school bus arrives.



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