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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

SHAMPOO, RINSE, REPEAT

by Steve Hellyard Swartz


On the side of the bottle it reads
Twist hair
Grimace
Watch the news
Scream for an hour on and off
Tell your Mom - IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS -
I DO NOT WANT DINNER!!!!
Get keys
Drive to Sportsman's Paradise
Buy gun
Drive to Wal-Mart
WHAT???? NO BULLETS????
Drive to second Wal-Mart
Buy bullets
Sleep
Don't sleep
All part of the conspiracy
Glenn is right, Glenn is right, Glenn is right
Drive to rally
Walk with purpose
SHOOT, SHOOT, SHOOT
Reload
Scream
GOLD IS GOOD,
BUT LEAD IS BETTER!!!!!!


Steve Hellyard Swartz is Poet Laureate of Schenectady, NY. He is a frequent contributor to New Verse News. Swartz is a 2011 Pushcart Prize nominee for Poetry. His poems have appeared in The Patterson Review, The Southern Indiana Review, The Kennesaw Review, and online at Best Poem and switched-on gutenberg. He is the winner of a First Place Award given by the Society of Professional Journalists for Excellence in Broadcasting. In 1990, Never Leave Nevada, a movie he wrote and directed, opened at the US Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
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