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J. J. Campbell

i seriously doubt the bliss


sometimes i'll brush my

teeth until i spit out

nothing but blood


but i'm not one of them

you know, one of these

people that get off on

seeing their own blood


but i do realize by

seeing my own

blood i don't have

to see the blood of others


here in my world of violence,

war, murder, rape and

the evening news


another night spent wondering

if my tear stained pillows

will hold my head up

from sinking down into

a hopefully blissful

alcohol induced

coma yet again


though i seriously doubt the

bliss given that each time i

close my eyes, i see you at

the counter filling prescriptions

while i'm three aisles away,

staring, stalking, yet never

having the balls to come

up and say

hello


and the back of my mind

pictures you now married

with children, living in

some lovely utopia while

i look on from my blackened

cage much like a dog with

his nose buried in shit


sometimes i'll brush my

teeth until i spit out

nothing but blood


just another step

on my yellow

brick road to

madness



my life is missing a funky bass line


just spent the last 45 minutes

in the shower contemplating

death and now i'm dripping

my indecision on the page


this towel barely covering

my fat ass reminds me of the

barbed wire around my brain


is it there to hold something in

or keep something out?


of course, these proverbial

questions will never be answered

given my constant state of one

hand on the remote and

the other on my dick


and given that constant state

you may be asking yourself

how am i writing this poem?


your guess is as good as mine

my friends, probably even better


it just seems my life is

missing a funky bass line


no matter what i do, it always

seems i'm out of step


but oh well, i'm just stupid

enough to keep trying


time to strap on my dirty

clothes and hit a new town


a place where they don't know me


find myself a new me and hopefully

something in a real short skirt

with a face that screams no morals


yeah, that may just do the trick


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Thunder Sandwich #26 - Summer/Fall 2005