Cerebral Contents:

Update for 05.05.08:

Disintegration by Don Hucks

Five Feet and Building by Joel Van Noord

Grocery Aisle by Richard Lighthouse

Cross the Road by Ashok Niyogi

04.29.08:

Lookalikes by Phil Doran

Dinner by Brandi Wells

The Modern Covenant by Daniel E. Wilcox

Death by Onions by Michael Frissore

04.21.08:

Future's Children by Kimberly Raiser

Identity Theft by George Anderson

The Datists by Adam Engel

A Great Deal of Money by Justin Hyde

04.14.08:

Mr. Papaya and Dale by Eric Suhem

California by Caroline Imreibe

Aftermath of Vehement Argument #1,068 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis

Trip-Hammer Vitality by Lisa Nickerson

04.07.08:

The Florence of Basel, or Why Readers of Nietzsche Need to Read Burckhardt by Jeff Crouch

Slideshow by Miles J. Bell

Friends of the Poet by Sean C. Bowen

Picture Perfect by Leah Baldwin

03.24.08:

The Streak by Jeremy Hendrix

Grab Your Butts by Emme Hor

Far Away by Ashok Niyogi

Staring Down a White-Tailed Doe by Aleathia Drehmer

03.17.08:

The Hairbrush by Vernard Kennedy

Dog Days of Winter by Niall Berkeley

Poem From My Grave by Michael Lee Johnson

Mashed Potatoes and Hamburgers by Matt Finney

03.10.08:

Hard Work by Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal

Jetty Cake Pigs by J.D. Nelson

I'm Quiet in Bed by Moctezuma Johnson

Tequila Shakes by Richard Lighthouse

A Great Deal of Money

by Justin Hyde

A great deal of money
has never excited me
so much as
trying to fundamentally peg
where exactly
a great deal of money
hooks any of us,

but try telling that
to a schizophrenic Inuit
named Two-dogs
while sitting on five-gallon buckets
in the homeless camp
behind gray's lake.

I'm not the one invented the wheel,
he says
cleaning his teeth
with a straight razor.

as the sky erupts
in seventh inning fireworks
from the AAA Iowa Cubs
across the river
he switches to
shaving a callous
off his palm.

I crack us another tallboy
ask him tell me again
about all the polar bear souls
melting into the ocean
up north.

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Justin Hyde lives in Iowa. He once artificially inseminated pigs for a living. He can be reached at jjjjhyde@yahoo.com. Click here to visit his blog. His first first book of poetry, Down Where the Hummingbird Goes to Die, is now available from The Guild of Outsider Writers and Zygote in My Coffee.

posted 04.21.08.

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