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Job Requirement by
Damon Hubbs the guy
my wife hired to do the job sat in his van— Heating & Sons, a white
number with rust creeping the wheel well like phlox —fucking
around on his phone
and watching the neighbor’s daughter do cartwheels in the yard. The
daughter has really grown up this summer so I can understand
his interest.
The guy in the van doesn’t know I’m watching him from my desk on
the second floor but I’m pretty sure my neighbor has
caught me watching
his hot little daughter too, a blossom in
our princedom by the sea where watching is a neighborhood event like a
block party or school raffle
or a Saturday bake sale for Mrs. McKnight’s cancer recurrence. The doorbell
finally rings around 10:20 AM and when I open the
door I think to myself really,
a guy like this can’t fill the job requirement. And I’m right. As soon
as he reaches into his tool bag for the taser and lead pipe
I’ve got him on the living
room floor half-choked out. In hindsight, tenderizing his frontal lobe
with a marble ashtray might have been too much. But
my wife loved that ashtray. It used to be shaped like a
turtle.
Year of the Rabbit by
Damon Hubbs rival
dragons dance &
burn down Hatseller St.,
chasing a rabbit with a strong jaw &
a foot like a gun that doesn’t jam I watch fireworks
split- screen the
midnight marquee try
to work the angles on
the best way to cheat fate Marathon Key by Damon Hubbs from
the back cabana the sun drops like a doomed
voyage by balloon we disrupt leisure
with danger on
the edge of the continent salvage work, really but who owes what to whom autopsying
in the glare
nothing connects, it coincides a bellwether for the imps & iguanas to hold high carnival
Pretzels by
Damon Hubbs eight yrs old & hawking pretzels on the corner of Aldine St for his father, The Roofer pretzels the watchword
for tickets to Newark’s East Ward
street races, The Roofer the guy who fixes
those races father liked a straight shot never drive a crooked road, he’d say little good it did
he ended up touge like sourdough in a trash compactor in Little Rhody
Times Argus by
Damon Hubbs the paper isn’t the hundred-eyed Greek giant its name suggests and that’s how Jimmy
got away with it for so long
he’d worked the sports beat for years covering Double-A games down at Damaschke Field. Jimmy knew the park well he knew where the
high school girls got picked up for soccer
practice and how
long it took their parents to get there. Jimmy
knew the way Umbros fit the leg the touch the dribble pink high gloss and
matte rubbing the sheer afternoon
sunlight he knew if one of the girls walked
home alone backpack over her shoulder taking the shortcut to a cold mutilated mattress in a dark, locked room Damon
Hubbs: film & art lover / pie bird collector / author of the chapbook The
Day Sharks Walk on Land (Alien Buddha Press). His second chapbook, Charm
of Difference, is forthcoming in 2024 (Back Room Poetry). Recent poems have been
featured in South Broadway Press, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Fixator
Press, Otoliths, Apocalypse Confidential, and Book
of Matches. He lives in New England. @damon_hubs
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