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Shooting a watermelon

Sublime sun, no socks and cigarettes,

concrete jars each step.

My finger strokes the trigger aimed at a perfect fullness,

targeted to smash smooth surfaces.

 

This shooting gallery also houses art.

 

Sparks of adrenaline fuel blood, hot lead flows through veins.

 

Like a toast has been raised by a crystal tapping,

the scene lies in focus.

Every melon visible,

I choose a victim.

 

“Every dog has it’s day”.

 

An ******** squeezing,

as splatters land upon tatters,

a cold slime slick of fresh pink flesh.

 

I lap it up.

Second on the list:

I’ve always wanted to hurl

a pumpkin from a third floor window,

watch the flecks of orange explode all over the grey concrete below,

a bulbous bursting of gourd upon ground.

 

An exuberant exhalation of at last:

I have got something done.

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Jun 12, 2010
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