500 Fingernails

By WHY?

On Sanddollars

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When you recognize the vulnerability in your handwriting

Visible to all on a broadway autoroll

Lamp post, dead drum, phone home, why

With broken lasso the P's hid

The H is humped so undefined

He Y so noncommittal then you will know

That you have still the fat face fresh fate

Sixth grader fitted pro model red's cap size six and seven eighths

You will know that you are still the kid sitting quietly

(my face was just a smear on the page)

On the creased vinyl green seat bus

I'm the same straight faced fat kid (five hundred, five hundered) fingernails later

I'm the same straight faced fat kid (five hundred, five hundered) fingernails later

Fat faced critic in the rear view mirror

Cutthroat ebert in the rearview

Giving you the evil eye, giving you the evil eye

I'm the same straight faced fat kid 500 fingernails later