Wednesday, November 29, 2017

10,231. READING APOPLEXY

READING APOPLEXY
Some crazy guy in an amplitude 
suit was wielding a hammer at me. 
I disarmed him with a chainsaw, 
and just kept going. Not to besmirch 
his reputation, but he pretty much 
just looked like an ass, not  really 
knowing what he was doing. Now, 
you might say, 'What's an amplitude 
suit?', and I'm not going to tell you. 
The people who ask questions like 
that are the same ones who go to 
Open-Mic Poetry Nights at their
local Town Hall Arts Center and
really shake things up with their poems
about ice cream and malls, and the
broken-hearted schoolmarms in old
Wappingers Falls; who turn nasty 
when they're green, and angry 
when left lonely  - those dishrags, 
those floorboards, those sinks.

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