Two Proses by Michael Brockley
Aloha Shirt Man Flunks Out of the Bruce Springsteen Air Guitar Academy
you google-search #sorrynotsorry images for a twitter-based poetry writing prompt because you’ve been banned from twitter for being a clueless old man
you’ve never heard of demi lovato and her hit sorry not
sorry was never shared on curmudgeopedia you’re after
all the last person drinking coffee in a diner in a black-
and-white movie in which everyone runs out of luck you
lose sleep wondering whether philip marlowe solved all
the murders in the big sleep but you recognize alyssa
milano she’s the actress you used to confuse with mila
kunis one of them was seduced by a vampire and the
other earned her badass degree in the book of eli you
swipe past memes that read optimistic heathen and
why i hate the yeti so much until scanning a list of the
most overrated movies of the last twenty years you’ve
seen nine of them including the one where charlize
theron kicks armageddon in the nuts while mad max is
hog-tied to the grill of a war wagon of course you
recognize your hey how you doin’ friend joey tribbiani
and the wolf of wall street who toasts you with a flute of
champagne while he picks the pocket of your future you
can always pop off for an arrogant bastard beer if
you don’t feel apologetic you might even channel your
inner ron burgundy after all your opinions were
disproven by somebody else’s facts somebody who
reminds you that dumb tigers are deep- stating the
world and you’re not important enough to hate you’re
not willy wonka and you’re still more philip marlowe than
mad max when you hit your mark you nail your line dead
men are heavier than broken hearts and isn’t that what
dinosaurs would doHowie Good
Michael Brockley is a retired school psychologist who lives in Muncie, Indiana. His poems have appeared in Unlost, Young Ravens Literary Review, Fatal Flaw, and Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan. Poems are forthcoming in Flying Island, Last Stanza, and Moving Images: Poetry Inspired by Cinema.).
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