Wednesday, March 21, 2018

"The Patriotic Plumber" By John Kaniecki


The Patriotic Plumber

By John Kaniecki

“I have the perfect solution” he boasts
Dripping plunger and oily wrench in hand
Dredge the lake
Full investigation
We’ll see if any corpses surface
There’s a soldier from 1964
Vietnam era
Recorded as A.W.O.L.
You can even Google the shameful details
Dark mark on our upright righteous hamlet
Kinda like slaughtering
Countless hordes of buffalo
Shooting the majestic beasts
As easy target practice
Like carnival ducks in a line
From slow trespassing trains
WE DARE NOT REPEAT OUR MISTAKES
We’ll leave no stone unturned
And not just the flat ones
The easy to flip ones
Which harbor stealthy lizards
And clever centipedes curling into balls
Why we’ll even lift the boulders
Archimedes principles rocks
It’ll be like killing two birds
With one fragmentation grenade
I detest a coward
Who refuses to commit genocide
For corporate profits
It just ain’t the American way

Standing in her loosely fitting bath rode
One saggy breast almost exposed
Blue curlers in her bleach blonde hair
Cigarette dangling from her mouth
Ashes dashing the ground by her pink bunny slippers
“Lot of work for a leaky faucet”
“How much?”





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