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Spring 2003 - Volume 25, Number 2
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The Shotgun Song
Moonshine drunk on Anarchy Island.
You said, "Shoot the night!"
"Bring it down!" you said.
"Bring stars sleeting down!"
Screened the night's maneuvers from within eel grass
baleen as from inside a right whale's mouth
captive plankton anarchists plotting
assault on the oversized beyond.
I shot the night.
"To the moon!" you said
"To the pompous glaring moon!"
I shot the adolescent 3 AM
with a 12-gauge
and the full moon
pulled out its tazer
and fired back electric monotone.
Ducked for cover container foxholes
behind frozen whitecaps in sand dunes turtleshelled.
You barrel-rolled the dodge
but I was hit by moonlit dripping
without a mood-proof vest.
I said the night suppressed our coup
but with you it wouldn't take.
You picked up my loaded double-barrel.
Held up our flag.
"Shoot the night," I said
"Dethrone the moon."
"Bring it all down."
-By Jeremy Gardner and Ryan Sweeney
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