WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF YOU WERE IN SPACE for David Franks

WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF YOU WERE IN SPACE

for David Franks



The social fabric covering the furniture is tearing at the

   corners

Differently, indifferently

Down at the inconvenient store the visually attractive (bubble

   butts) form a conga line

Footloose or footless    there's Footlong


Help me    I'm crestfallen     & I can't get it up

Never live it downtown

Can't keep it uptown

Can't live with it    can't live without it


I left my mini-obsessions hyperventilating in the minivan

The edges of Acceptability are closing in

Closing of all exits but one

Who's robo-signing for tomorrow's Mozzarella Chunk?


All this infrastructure generated to pacify the animal within

Indispensable or indefensible

A burglary happens every 18.3 seconds here in the Land of the

   Break In

I'm trying to break out


-Joel Dailey


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JD's most recent publication is SURPRISED BY FRENCH FRIES, available from Ugly Duckling Presse. He lives in New Orleans.