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dancing her out

 

by Justin Hyde

 

 

the red-haired woman

who sat next to me

at Brothers

smelled like

shoe-wax and

b.o.

 

she told the bartender

how to make a

sand-viper

and handed one

to me.

 

said her three year old

son

was in custody of the

state

she'd come in on a greyhound

to find a job

and get him

back.

 

i fell into

the crack scene real

bad

put myself on the

streets in

chicago,

she said.

 

had two guys

dancing me out,

they caught up with it

did this,

she said

and raised her tank-top

showing a horribly burned

left breast.

 

what the hell is that

whore doing

on your couch?

my girlfriend dragged me

into the bathroom

seething.

 

listen

she's in a bad

way,

i'm going to let her

sleep on the couch for

tonight

and she'll be gone

in the morning.

 

the fuck she is

have you lost your

mind?

if that thing stays

we're done.

 

i hope i'm not

causing you any

problems.

 

just a true blossoming

of ignorance,

i said

as we boiled

coffee and

got on the internet

looking for

legal aid attorneys

shelters and

temp agencies.

 

The Sun Doesn't Even Blink

 

Justin Hyde

 

too many scientists trying to

empiricise the human race into

amoebas

 

too many seventy-nine year old grandmothers

raising grandchildren because their mothers and fathers

are tapping anhydrous tanks and

tweaking in the streets

 

too many idiots thinking

they've discovered surrealism

 

too many retarded girls in wheelchairs

who will never have weddings

 

too many

match-stick catholics

praying for our souls

 

too many atheists who

don’t understand deduction is

built on induction

 

too much hate born

out of fear stoked

by ignorance of the axe

buried in every human heart

 

not nearly enough sheep willing

to shit on the herd and

 

i've yet to see one poet:

 

this asshole included.

 

 

This Poor Bastard at the Flying "J"

 

Justin Hyde

 

hundred-twenty pound

chicken-hawk sitting

at the little 'u' shaped

counter up front

can't be more than

nineteen.

 

the waitress is

his girlfriend,

she's trying to

hide it with makeup, but

there's a bruise

firming below her

left eye.

 

just go home!

she yells at him

for all of us to hear,

which at three-twenty-seven

in the morning is me

back in a corner booth and

the two of them.

 

after a month

of coming here

i've gathered he

doesn't have a job,

his whole universe

consists of the

fear that some

diesel jockey's gonna

tap her

out in his cab and

turn her into a

highway gypsy.

 

that guy over there

he's smart

a writer

says you've got problems

and need help!

 

(jesus christ,

this is all i need)

 

the fuck you know man!

the fuck you know!

his wings are

flapping like he

means business,

 

but true to form,

 

man to man

his kind of coward

never slides ass

off the seat.

 

my first golf lesson

 

Justin Hyde

 

 

all the other bank examiners

golfed

and they drank

and bet money

while doing it

so i figured

i'd give it a jump,

 

but my instructor

didn't show

at the driving range.

 

the sign

on the little shit-hole

across the street

said "the anchor"

 

get yourself

some chili,

the bartender said.

 

i dipped my styrofoam cup

in the crockpot

and ordered a round

for the house,

 

which was three

myself included.

 

sarah

sold vacuum cleaners

at sears

had three different prescriptions

for anxiety

and hadn't had

a bowel movement

in two weeks.

 

clifford's son

went queer

while up in anamosa

for dealing crank

and his second wife

was over to meskwaki

putting paid

to their social security check.

 

i ordered another round

for the house,

 

told them how my mom

exhausted the

multiple doctor route

and recently graduated

to the street-fix.

 

around here

we wear our wounds

like mink stoles,

sarah smiled

as clifford

brought some darts

and a pitcher

from behind the bar.

 

 

the new fed

 

Justin Hyde

 

young kid

maybe twenty-three

 

eyes like van gogh

 

more soul than normal

for these parts.

 

spent thirty-four hours

on a greyhound

coming to work release

from federal prison

in kentucky.

 

have to sit next to any crazies?

i ask

while checking in the contents

of his green army bag.

 

matter of fact no,

he says

 

tells me he sat next to a

young woman

and her six-year-old daughter.

 

it was nice,

he says

 

tells me

he felt human

for the first time

in five years.

 

says the little girl

got attached to him

pretty quick

 

he bought her

a package of super-balls

during a two-hour layover

in indiana

 

three of them

started bouncing them around

having so much fun

they almost missed the bus.

 

they get off in des moines too?

i ask

handing him some intake forms

to sign.

 

no

 

no,

he says

 

tells me

they had to go on to omaha.

 

maybe next time,

i say

pointing out his room

down the hall.

 

such is life,

he says

and shoulders his bag

and asks

which way to the can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Justin Hyde lives in Iowa where he works as a correctional officer.  He is also a poetry editor at Thieves Jargon.

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