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Brian McGettrick

For Truth, Justice And Anyway


I had gotten a bike,

sliver with

black pads


and the apartment

block we had just

moved to had a

series of criss

crossing connected

narrow pathways


and then I was

the Jedi knight

on his speeder

bike battling

the empire


who was personified

in the bully (and

everyplace has one)

who wore mirrored

sun glasses and

carried nunchucks,

he looked like a

perverse parody of

CHIPS but of course I

never told him this.


the place was not

bad and had some

greenery however

I remember planning

my escape route via

the rough barked

perfectly symmetrical

tree outside my window

that seemed within

reach but if attempted

would have lead to

nothing but a fall

to serious injury.


back then as I

walked in on the

the feasting

nocturnal birds

I did not realize

it was a trap


nor was there

those

that had yet

to be

sprung.



Barking Mad Love


like the mundane

insane dog in

every street


it barks loudly at

everyone passing

from behind a

gate or fence


and you jump every time

it gets you


you jump and

this becomes

the thing


you what to kill,

strangle and see

the life leave it

because of your

own hands


until one day you are

passing and there is

no loud barking or

craziness


only the small padding

of it's feet on the

concrete towards

you and then it

sniffs

your

ankle


and

walks


away.


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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005