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I HEARD ON CBC
I heard on CBC That this engineer guy, Like he invented an alien
Abduction prevention Security system, Aye?
You plug it in beside Your bed, And it measures these ion things
That aliens make.
The buzzer goes off, Aye, And so you wake up and decide If you
want, You know, To let the aliens abduct You.
I heard for 399 bucks They're selling like hotcakes.
AT THE INTERSECTION
A boy with a head Like a chicken cut off, Etherealized between
carbon paper And a clam, Almost rides a horse, Like a scab-wart,
Crying, "Ariel! Ariel!"
His madness in a twinkle, Vomit in a jar— His kidneys in
a puke bag On Air Canada.
"Ahhhhhh!" His world becomes a 4 inch June bug On his back,
On his spine, And the sun circles his eyeballs As the screeching
car halts.
The boy remembers to cry, To draw in sulphuric air, And then
he runs, runs like Belshazzar Breathing, breathing.
Copyright © 2001 Dan Lukiv. All Rights
Reserved.
Dan Lukiv is Canadian poet who has contributed
to numerous magazines and journals. He lives in Quesnel, British
Columbia.
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