Mastodon Dentist – Issue 13
One Thousand Tame Rabbits
Each of the thousand tame rabbits
that jumped on Napoleon
after the Battle of Austerlitz
has its own story to tell,
but this isn’t it,
this is a tourniquet for a beheaded giraffe,
this is a rubber crutch and a fart in a space suit,
this is playing for time at the gates of Oswiecim
and on the deck of the Titanic,
this is an ice cream stand at the North Pole
selling vanilla only,
this is Christ’s unslapped cheek getting caught
in a revolving door like the tigers the homeboy
made chase themselves to butter
then bottled to sell to a grateful nation,
in other words, this is the American dream
with its nuts in a vice screaming
in a frequency to shatter all the TV screens
in the land and set our demons free.
Each of the thousand tame rabbits
that jumped on Napoleon
after the Battle of Austerlitz
has its own story to tell,
but this isn’t it,
this is a tourniquet for a beheaded giraffe,
this is a rubber crutch and a fart in a space suit,
this is playing for time at the gates of Oswiecim
and on the deck of the Titanic,
this is an ice cream stand at the North Pole
selling vanilla only,
this is Christ’s unslapped cheek getting caught
in a revolving door like the tigers the homeboy
made chase themselves to butter
then bottled to sell to a grateful nation,
in other words, this is the American dream
with its nuts in a vice screaming
in a frequency to shatter all the TV screens
in the land and set our demons free.
Each of the thousand tame rabbits
that jumped on Napoleon
after the Battle of Austerlitz
has its own story to tell,
but this isn’t it,
this is a tourniquet for a beheaded giraffe,
this is a rubber crutch and a fart in a space suit,
this is playing for time at the gates of Oswiecim
and on the deck of the Titanic,
this is an ice cream stand at the North Pole
selling vanilla only,
this is Christ’s unslapped cheek getting caught
in a revolving door like the tigers the homeboy
made chase themselves to butter
then bottled to sell to a grateful nation,
in other words, this is the American dream
with its nuts in a vice screaming
in a frequency to shatter all the TV screens
in the land and set our demons free.
Each of the thousand tame rabbits
that jumped on Napoleon
after the Battle of Austerlitz
has its own story to tell,
but this isn’t it,
this is a tourniquet for a beheaded giraffe,
this is a rubber crutch and a fart in a space suit,
this is playing for time at the gates of Oswiecim
and on the deck of the Titanic,
this is an ice cream stand at the North Pole
selling vanilla only,
this is Christ’s unslapped cheek getting caught
in a revolving door like the tigers the homeboy
made chase themselves to butter
then bottled to sell to a grateful nation,
in other words, this is the American dream
with its nuts in a vice screaming
in a frequency to shatter all the TV screens
in the land and set our demons free.
David Thornbrugh
Bio:
David Thornbrugh currently writes from South Korea , where he teaches English in a National
University . He writes to push back the darkness a little bit at a time, in the same flighty manner as
lightning bugs. He has been published in numerous small press journals, and once wrote the questions
for a geography textbook. He prefers multiple choice questions to True/False.
David Thornbrugh currently writes from South Korea , where he teaches English in a National
University . He writes to push back the darkness a little bit at a time, in the same flighty manner as
lightning bugs. He has been published in numerous small press journals, and once wrote the questions
for a geography textbook. He prefers multiple choice questions to True/False.
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