Outside the auto parts store
The sun shines toward approaching eve like a high noon western showdown
Something off camera grinding
Rapidly approaching
It ain’t Gary Copper as the clock strikes and the footsteps stop
GOD DAMN, I JUST WANT TO TEACH MY COWORKER HOW TO CHANGE SPARK PLUGS
I grab the wrench just in case
As the crackhead reaches underneath his shirt, teeth grinding like a rusty chainsaw
Pretending to be at the task at hand
“Hey guys I found this baby squirrel outside the crackhouse over there! I just bought crack!”
He thrusts the fuzzy living being in my befuddled chum’s hand
Eyes closed. Paralyzed.
“If I leave it in the front yard the crackheads will stomp him, I’ll get some napkins or rags from that store over there to wrap him up”
Yeah man, Google says you should just put them back where you found them”
”Nah, man you may as well put him under your tires and run him over if you do that! The crackheads will stomp him!”
He doesn’t come out with napkins
“Damn Mexicans won’t help me! I’m on crack.”
We’re in a Mexican neighborhood not on crack
He’s in a Mexican neighborhood chewing crack rocks, having just bought crack from a crackhouse handing us a crack baby squirrel by association rendering us racist by association
We got this, brother
He nods, grinding more teeth, I don’t want to punch him have my fist bitten getting infected by crack venom
In turn gnashing my teeth spewing crack venom
“I just got out of prison for killing my friend, why do Ifeel this way?!”
He sips from a bottle of vodka as if it was a job well done and goes
Hobbling into the not quite sunset
It could’ve been good, bad and ugly
all at once
Swinging a wrench at a crack maniac frantically trying to change spark plugs before the police arrive…
“DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT MY JORDANS ARE WORTH MORE THAN YOUR SOUL!”
He wasn’t wearing shoes
Of course we did what Google said
Mike Zone is the Editor in Chief of Dumpster Fire Press, the author of Fuck You: A Fucking Poetry Chap, Shedding Dark Places (almost), One Hell of a Muse , as well as coauthor of The Grind. A frequent contributor to Alien Buddha Press and Mad Swirl. His work has been featured in: Horror Sleaze Trash, Better Than Starbucks, Piker Press, Punk Noir Magazine, Synchronized Chaos, Outlaw Poetry and Cult Culture magazine.
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