Nothing like boom boom

mom said
never sit with your
back to the
door
and always know
the back way out

I didn’t learn to
grab the ground
till I was
12
the 12 gauge came
shortly thereafter

I’d sit in the window
and clean my guns
little .22
30.6 with scope
30-30 ditto
scope in some neighbor
and wave

on new years
at midnight
while cops parked
in the underpass
I joined the rain of
bullets
aimed at stinky rich
bixby knolls
and hit the trigger

there’s nothing like
boom boom
like I saved up all
year
screaming and yelling
firing my guns
kiss my ass all you
mother fuckers
oppress this shit
boom boom boom

after
back in the
house
waiting like some
convict
for a knock to
come
slowly
dick clark
recapping the
countdown
I remember
I’m safe
it's new years
the one night
they let us shot
back

J. Masuda © 2004
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I like the Dick Clark countdown portion...clever. This one kind of reads like a heavy metal song or maybe something I you'd hear on some rage against the machine B-side.

-suspeckted