One Big Misunderstanding by Brian Le Lay

CW: Swear words

1

Once when I was twelve

I crawled inside the TV screen

Into the land of late-night TV movies

Tossed a grappling hook over the slobbering guard dogs

Penny loafers sliding in the motorcycle skids

Pulled you from quicksand in the nickel of time

2

Locked in the trunk of a stolen Crown Vic

A vampire tracks me across the Sonoran desert

and creeps through a plot hole to find & fang me

Fuck him! A wisp of first daylight

ripples through a hatchet-break in the clapboard wall

3

White surge of jet skis

4

Shit-faced with fast friends on a rooftop

I wonder what it's like where stars are born (Tennessee)

drag a jittering Tercel

across the Ozarks

to intercept an envelope

5

We ride a train longways across Russia

Blinded by wind & snow at the crucial junctures

The conductor tells us this time

and that's the primary difference

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Brian Le Lay likes to fiddle with language and find the funny. His poems have appeared in places like Drunk Monkeys, VAYAVYA, and Peach Mag.