Tweak Job! Warsaw Bikini!

The Bloof Books Tweak Job contest to win a copy of Sandra Simonds's Warsaw Bikini now ends August 23rd. The first poems are up at Tweak Job proper.

Here's my entry...taken from Sandra's "Bon Voyage." I already have a copy of Warsaw Bikini, so if I win, I will send my deliciously disturbing surprise to some lucky you!

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so goodbye bulky red train—pulse sack of meat

Oh artificial ticktock, black funnel transit
which rides me out the door and back in the door

on the opposite side of this room
terrible terrible

choo-choo soot-soot circuit of RIGHT HERE.

This is not a no thank you situation.
This is not a pretty nook, the hook

and nail, the metal welcome.
This is the cul-de-sac of the frontier.

This is where the wig comes off,
and beneath it only skull.

This is where, everything you’ve done,
you’ve done yourself in.

Fat flesh on a rail thin rail,
roped down, the sick thunk

where you travel again and again,
the same dismal kill, it never completes.

Bon voyage, pretty bird. So long,
thirsty long throated cuckoo.