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The Busted Engine Reality

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By Steve B HowardPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
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The Busted Engine Reality
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I’m Bukowski’s left nut spraying

near impotent literary detritus

all over the web.

Tyler Durden’s industrious schizoid

fingers clawing the walls

of this classroom while dreaming

of exploding buildings that will

free me from this dead soul’s job.

Mac and the boy’s shaky DDT’s

trying to Old Tennis Shoe drown another

set of newly assembled bad memories.

And Dr. Gonzo’s one last coke-fueled shotgun

blast “fuck you” to the world before

John Boy blasts his ashes into the eternal

Freakdome.

The greats, dead and imaginary, probably laugh at

my pathetic mimicry, but I will still claw these

black and unique words from my cranium even if the

effort results in naught.

surreal poetry
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About the Creator

Steve B Howard

Steve Howard's self-published collection of short stories Satori in the Slip Stream, Something Gaijin This Way Comes, and others were released in 2018. His poetry collection Diet of a Piss Poor Poet was released in 2019.

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