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May 04, 2005

This Ain’t No Damn Bingo! Shoot.

Lauren Bender


You stay here and I’ll go think about guns
Or duotone, or vegan mullets
Bring aspartame back for the children
Dump pillowcase booty onto living room floor and inspect for myth.
Couldn’t see my French Canadian for the fiberoptic trees
“he grabbed my hand, and 20 minutes later…”
Tea over a spit, the eucalyptic accompaniment
Open your eyes
I’m dreaming maps and spent drawings
Open your eyes
Meet up in the barrio
Open your eyes
Wake up in the ruins outside Mexico City
How did your boots get so dusty
How much does an I-Book cost
How does everything man owns fit into a 6x4 storage unit
Jack, your wife’s organ is missing
Jack, this poem is channeling nothing but a hangnail in my drunken country
10 signs you’re naively apathetic:
Jack, you’re as swayed as his new field jacket and just as inauthentic
Swigged yourself to death one starry evening
Shot as much as a carpenter can afford
Quoted yourself right down the information superhighway
Sidewalk chalk for her intellectual graffiti
I’m so excited and I just can’t hide it
Friends + 2,
Harborside view,
How did your boots get so dusty

More in Week 8
all poetry from Lauren Bender
New Car Jacking Scheme
Water Weight; and
a certain trauma encoded in a time of year


Previously on Rock Heals
And on the 7th Week more Unabomber Haiku and the first edition of This Month in Search
Week 6 Is Habit Forming with another installment of 911 Diaries, a photo from Raji, and a review of Katamari Damacy!
Week 5: Yankees In Last! (But so are the Sox) with a short play from Brian Calandra and a recipe
Week 4: Perdue, the Pope and Bellows. Oh my! with 911 Diaries, Mike Grau, and music from M_GP
Week 3 Waits Patiently for Spring Weather with a comic from John Shanchuk
Week 2 In the Time or Rock Heals with poetry from Justin Sirois; and
Week 1 Where it All Began with poetry from Mark Wallace

Posted by Rock Heals at May 4, 2005 12:40 AM