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Contributor’s Copies, Chapbooks and Other Printed Self-delusion

Contributor’s Copies, Chapbooks

and Other Printed Self-delusion

 

My fingernails

are dirty from yet

another recycled

toner cartridge

and I think

it’s raining again.

83 hours of

Formatted

screen shots

and Ctrl/Alt/Delete

have rendered

me useless

to the merry-go-round.

 

I’m not sure

Jesus loves me

anymore

but my bottle

is still half full

so I’ll worry

about it tomorrow.

I can’t remember

what it’s like

to use a voice

that requires

no fingers

and I am closer

to pixilated

ethereal avatars

than I am

to the guy in 1B.

 

I ordered a can

of expanding foam

from a late night

TV commercial

because this gap

in my chest

is becoming

just a bit

unmanageable.

 

SMG 

Roadside Assistance

You were a top down
drive up the coast
and I hugged each curve
like it was my first and last;
your luxury so foreign
to my economic hands
and domestic heart.

The time skipped past
with dotted line persistence
and dark glasses concealed
my doubts and your tears

When the road turned
inland I let go the wheel
and we began to drift
into the oncoming traffic.
I never thought about
checking the mileage
until we ran out of gas
and I left you stranded
on the side of the road.