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Friday, July 27, 2012

THE REGISTRY OF KIM JONG UN AND HIS NEW WIFE COMRADE RI SOL-JU

by Ed Plunkett


One nuclear weapon
Two matching Jeremy Lin Houston Rockets jerseys
Three bottles of that plum liquor I had a couple of weeks ago
Four free downloads of the bride’s song, “Excellent Horse-Like Lady”
Five Olympic women’s soccer players to replace the ones who tested positive for deer glands
Six party talks that proves effective
Seven Portuguese world cup soccer goals to be removed retroactively
Eight defectors to come back from the South to the Fatherland
Nine more years for the Dear Leader to spend in Switzerland
Ten nuclear weapons.


Ed Plunkett is from Columbus, Ohio. He has represented Writers' Block Poetry at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Berkeley in 2009 and has been a featured reader at the Columbus Arts Festival as well as other venues in Central Ohio. He has published the chapbook Nobody’s Poet, the CD I'm Not From Here and has been in the journal The Legendary and the anthology Buzzkill: Apocalypse. His goal is to read in all of Ohio's 88 counties. He has a long way to go
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