Gap Toothed Punker Slut by Shawn Rider

Gap® Toothed Punker Slut
by Shawn Rider

style like a broke tooth
        root dangle

makes him all giddy, nauseous,
        excited

he defines punk rawk:
    "Like white boys find the blues,
     Like not just buy the blues,
     Like in a real red sense,
     White boys becomin aware of the        blues."

then dreams of
pretty girls with buzzcuts and bondage belts,
wifebeater chic,
proud to be trailerpark,
cuz the burbs are just trash like the trailers

just as locked in
and destined to mediocrity

then he pulls out a bottle of Robitussin™
cuz that’s what’s easy,
picks his nose and sings:
       "Jesus was a man
        who traveled cross the land,
        a hardworkin man and brave.
       He said to the rich,
        ‘Give your money to the poor.’
        so they laid Karl Marx
        in his grave."