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Joseph Veronneau

Vicariously


A town so close together,

you can hear your neighbors dying,

being brought out of homes on flat-bedded

stretchers.

Hear our neighbors laughing,

the sitcom or dirty movie blasting

above certified company warrantee refunds.

Hear our neighbors fucking,

pounding and clawing for heightened sensations

previously expected to remain unattainable.

But more than any of that,

I can hear myself

thinking,

cold whispers turned into maddening thumps

of unarticulated pressure,

hoping to gather ourselves close enough

to smell the armpits of God.



Lucky Bastard


Took photographs of all of the women

He'd slept with


On casual nights

Would drag out the drawer

From its secret hiding

And flaunt them around


Like he was the one

With the large tits


They'd all move on

To other things


But the pleasure was all his

Time

And

Time again.



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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005