| Thunder Sandwich #17
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 dweeb by jeff filipski |
| forty-five cents so I'm standing at this urinal choking the lizard seeing a dying friend about a horse (or is it a horse about a dying friend?) tapping a kidney when I look down & see three dimes two nickels a non-filtered cigarette butt & a red rubber mat wondering what kind of sick sucker would drown coins of the realm in gallons of piss - when two stalls down a voice says "How much is there now?" I manage to sing out "FORTY CENTS" & a chuckle guffaw & snicker reminds me I'm not alone in this business of making room for a few gallons more of rental merchandise seems people have been adding change all evening adding to the torture of cleaning a restroom at minimum wage keeping the sodden coins after rinsing them off the unseen guy in the stall says "it was thirty-five cents a half hour ago" & I try the famous juggling act when you are holding your pud in one hand & fumbling for change with the other in the pocket on the other side of tight jeans half shit-faced in need of a nickel I zip up & stumble back a nickel lighter & not any wiser noticing the droplets on my jeans & hope nobody else does until my buddy says "Forty - five cents?" doughnuts across the street in the snow-filled deserted parking lot some hot shot is doing doughnuts racing up & down the length of it cranking the wheel at the last second hopping a back tire up this goes on for some time until he loses the fine edge of knowing when to turn let off the gas & apply the brakes on his last run a snow plow enters the lot scaring the shit out of him as he can't decide which way to turn & loses it tail lights fishtail in the dying evening white knuckles as he stalls it out we can wonder what he was thinking rabbits foot swaying from the rearview mirror something on the lines of HOLY SHIT or JESUS CHRIST as he restarts it & drives off the plow keeps plowing the snow keeps falling twenty bucks an hour beer money or payments on his little used plow after he is finished he tries to do doughnuts on the freshly scrapped pavement no such luck and drives off content |
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| ISSN: 1534-4037 |
Edited by Jim Chandler & Haze McElhenny
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