Seedy lunch counter in New Jersey
Monster Mash just out
Juke box plays it nonstop
on the owner’s dime
We punks love it
but later wonder how the counter help
could stand it
On both sides of the door
are low metal coolers
stuff in there
looks Ice Age
If you touch both coolers at once
you get an electric shock
If you lick your fingers first
the shock almost knocks you out
They did the Mash…
Richey Lloyd
puts his hands full on the coolers
In two seconds he
has a gran mal seizure
it’s awesome
His granma comes runnin’
He’s visiting another world, says my older brother
as Richey foams at the mouth
His granma sticks the handle end of a large crescent wrench
in his mouth
where she got it from we have no idea
You’re supposed to use a popsicle stick
says my brother
What are you, a doctor? screams Granma
a hefty Sicilian
My brother later does become a doctor
but nobody knows it
while Richey is throwin’ his fit
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois
Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois has had over fourteen-hundred of his poems and fictions appear in literary magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including quite a few in POETRY LIFE AND TIMES. He has been nominated for numerous prizes, and was awarded the 2017 Booranga Writers’ Centre (Australia) Prize for Fiction. His novel, Two-Headed Dog, based on his work as a clinical psychologist in a state hospital, is available for Kindle and Nook, or as a Print Edition . To see more of his work, google Mitchell Krockmalnik Grabois. He lives in Denver.
Robin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times his publications include All the Babble of the Souk and Cartoon Molecules collected poems and Key of Mist the recently published Tesserae translations from Spanish poets Guadalupe Grande and Carmen Crespo visit Aquillrelle.com/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds) and his latest Collected Poems Volume at Next-Arrivals