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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY - 04/2012
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BOB BRILL No Can Do she stands on the cliff bare toes curled over the edge crouched to spring arms raised for flight just as she begins to feel the acid coming on she keeps telling herself there's nothing I can't do but just in time she remembers she is no bird no wings no feathers no flying lessons no pilot's license straightening up she steps back still gazing at the sky where pearly clouds float and an eagle rides the thermals she sighs and turns away looking down at her feet she walks back to her car too stoned to drive As She Sank This is ALPHA BRAVO FOXTROT ZULU ALPHA BRAVO FOXTROT ZULU Does anyone read us? Our ship is sinking If you don't help us we're going to drown here HOTEL ECHO LIMA PAPA UNIFORM SIERRA Notify our families Pray for us We came to grief on the icebergs off QUEBEC We have a bottle of WHISKEY and the scrapings of an old KILO This is CHARLIE Hey I'll tell you of the time I got laid in the HOTEL INDIA in LIMA Ohio the place was deserted flies lay dead on the windowsills the chambermaid walked in while I was drowsing on the bed I said take off your dress and she did after we fucked she told me her name was JULIET I said call me ROMEO MIKE speaking Last NOVEMBER a potted plant fell four stories hit PAPA on the back he went from doctor to doctor they said you're okay now look at the XRAY he said no I don't feel right they said go home don't worry going down in the elevator he threw up a turd and died VICTOR here My mother came out of the DELTA country walking many days before she fell down on the road a star descended and spoke to her she got up and followed it until she reached a GOLF course where she fell into the arms of a YANKEE merchant who became my father the water is up to our necks they're living still in Boston Massachusetts GOLF OSCAR DELTA GOLF OSCAR DELTA We pray that you receive us We commend our souls to Thee TANGO HOTEL ECHO ECHO TANGO HOTEL ECHO ECHO Bob Brill's short stories and novellas have appeared in various online and print journals. His poems have appeared in Simply Haiku, Prune Juice, 3Lights Gallery, 3Lights Journal, Aphelion, The Battered Suitcase, Willows Wept Review, Frogpond, tinywords, Underground Voices, Atlas Poetica, Magnapoets, Mu and Curio Poetry. He is the featured senryu poet in the Autumn 2009 issue of Simply Haiku. One of his tanka was selected for Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka Volume 3 (2010). |
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