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  • Cannonball, and: Breaking the Girl, and: Come Out and Play
  • Christopher DeWeese (bio)

Cannonball

Sitting in a Taco BellI want to burn maps

I could be a knight gallantA blonde in a reggae song

Babes stay out past curfewThey ponder Slash

Under a code-red moonI’m in love with the past

But I won’t know youAt the carnival [End Page 216]

Breaking the Girl

She was a placeWhere I got colds

In my terrible faceShe kind of lived far away

I estranged myselfI shot up the night with my arms

I was abhorrentAnd she was a girl

A lot of relationshipsSeem to end up this way [End Page 217]

Come Out and Play

It’s hard to recount your lifeWithout disrespecting anybody

Like outrageous fashionsI try to keep it celebrated

Keep in mind I was a childI was only sixteen

I was into petty crimeFinding my own real

I had so much timeTo hallucinate [End Page 218]

Christopher DeWeese

Christopher DeWeese is the author of The Black Forest and The Father of the Arrow is the Thought, both published by Octopus Books. He is currently Assistant Professor of Poetry at Wright State University. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

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