Thursday, June 12, 2008

West Memphis Free Verse: Barbecue Sauce for the Human Spirit

God is overweight

He lives in a highly fortified compound with an extensive collection of impractical automobiles and World War II militaria

And snow leopards

He is surrounded by five-year-old Japanese guitar prodigies

Playing Van Halen’s “Eruption” on red Flying Vs with yellow polka dots

The guitars are the size of eight-year-old German boys

He moves like an early-’70s acid rock video

Transposing live performance with still photography

The snow leopards are malnourished

Animal rights activists surround the compound with crude homemade signs and rocks the size of racquetballs

A giant, inflatable rat with a collective pulse

They smash his beautiful bay windows like this is All Hallows Eve and he lives in the old Myers house

The guards are compensated handsomely and they are armed to the teeth

This environment is not conducive to snow leopards.

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