| Thunder Sandwich #17
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 dweeb by jeff filipski |
| KEN KESEY (1935-2001) One flew over electric author central character acid nest. Electric flyover acid author Kool-Aid character cuckoo's test. Prankster paint job author character merry bus trip American road. Merry acid electric prankster character author all aboard. ANOTHER TYPO You know what they say about those Navajo weavers? Or maybe Persian? Chinese? Some nimble-fingered other. Anyway, they say they make mistakes on purpose. Yeah, misplace one thread in every rug, so's not to piss the gods off by presuming to aspire to perfection. Me, I've never had that problem. One imperfection after another without even trying. No competition here -- the gods must love me. AT THE DEMONSTRATION A hero of some older battlefield, Surveys the park in which we congregate To speak against, and for, our country's guns. The camouflage-clad children of the hawks And tie-dyed, tofu-fed dove kids converge To swarm a chunk of history: a face In granite bas-relief, some words & dates. They clamber on the general, we unfurl Twin US flags. The antis and the pros Alike lay claim to these stripes, to these stars. We take our places on the green -- left, right -- Hold up our banners: Honk If You Support. . . . Both sides fly flags; the traffic passing there Can barely guess which views they're honking for. But honk they do, we cheer, wave red-white-blue, Live one more day without a civil war. |
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