BounceIn school we learned drunk drivers survive in droves
because they overcome human instinct, which is to say
they’re not alive enough to know:
when impact is imminent, brace.
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Grant Burkhardt
Dublin, Ireland
Selected work (4 publications)
The thing about people knowing you cookis that you become an easy target for gifts.
Steamer pot, dutch oven, bamboo sticks,
zesters. Even perishables are fair game,
chiefly when coupled with the hardware.
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In Walsh's PubHalf of Walsh’s Pub is here for the band,
the other half are drowning out the music,
Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
that works just enough.
Four men, tucked in the back corner table,
young but their beards age them years
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QuestionsThe questions at the start of the nightmare came packaged with charms.
As fresh lovers do, we laid naked and asked about each other:
our lives before, all interests galore, families, friends, cities,
books, beliefs, musics, the stuff that makes us
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