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Daniel Brenner

AIN'T NO N IN TONY


She got married & I didn't care

Until I fell asleep and visited

The place where I swung like

Donkey Kong along the tower

To carry her (& her alone) the water


My eyes gooed shut & stomach

Complaining tossing to outside noises

Licking my throat and straining

My bladder I loved her   

Outside it was all silent blue


In the mud outside of the window

Seattle Indians made a totem pole

That told the story of the day

& in the cemetery nearby

A monster truck roared


I turned up the radio as far as it goes

To the song with the gravelly voice

Lay me down it sang

In the comic book

Where there is a lot more noise



JIGGITY JOG


I am his accomplice

He has been through

Crimes of violence

And non-violence

Like a director

Pegging blue lights

Behind a camera

I trail behind him

Licking a Popsicle

In blue jeans

& enjoying the riot

As I'm collected I wonder

At the sudden cheapness of it

Like cheap fireworks

Or bubble-gum


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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005