Ryan Daley

3 poems

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Tattoo of Droopy


is your sister messed up
getting a tattoo that looked like
droopy
you're not pulling anything over
on us with that,
so you know there are no concert tickets for schmucks
Following the creep of livestock
13, 18, at age 26 eighty
my friends will stand for anything
cows for us to eat wisdom

—if we combine in lessons—
Into the same modular home
We can vote more often, and for
Better toiletry
compared with lasting damnation
until we chop up our suits
....ourselves inside, I want to meet the irony
....that bleeds and never dies
I'm sure there's a cover band behind it
And that it slams the receiver down

the poem as tire
....with fixing
though one
....into a herd

that recess hides in fashion magazines
goody intellectual


....girl in photo
caddy corner to
....kiddy pool
washed and done publicly

someone always dress like a panda
the call the hairy cop, missed connection
bystanders no longer

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Rush


You're putting me on!
Any term coined/worn out by Rush Limbaugh must have logical weight!
Rush is the parameter of reality.
He's the true blue, the real thing
the fatherly drug utensil of our time
Making the bald man puke
Hey, you can't make fun of him!
He's just a bald fatso with a christ complex,
only James Caviezel is.
Rushie go boo hoo.
Rushie *angry* that Ronnie Reagan dead and more uppers

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Justice On


How come he'd your comments required us to chambermaid out of where we used to wrestle where
later we would collect our shoes, our shed travel
halt convoy. I'll play your Arab just. Names weren't history, but we cuss
Guerrilla Warfare. Laced on the Seine's banks what matters. In blood
a gruff. Cackle now at how irony becomes the small human
gel inserts on the tourist boats. Ode to a razor wire fence. Each mag blades entry
into mosaic. That which represents what we know as a gun. Men hang like geese at
the border. A blind woman carrying a sword awakens.

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return to sawbuck 2.3

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Ryan Daley works as an ESL teacher and adjunct teaches when feeling strong. Airforce Joyride will publish A BORDER LOOKS LIKE MAKING LOVE sometime in the near future. Other work has appeared in Golden Handcuffs Review, Death Metal Poetry, Galatea Resurrects, and GlitterPony. These appearances don't indicate a consensus, however. His book, ARMORED ELEVATOR, published by BlazeVOX in 2007, is dear. He blogs at Giver.

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