Jim Behrle

Jim Behrle's latest chapbbok is RECENT SONIC NEWS (Please evict us). He lives in Brookline, MA.

I'm Set Free 

Bad news tonight: We're / Winning the war, Bonzo. / Bring Santa Claus to / The river. Bring some

fireworks. Transcend those / Polyesters. The time has / Come to mix and match. I never would have

guessed / Trees gave a shit. I'm way / More miserable. A face as long / As old Broadway. Say

goodbye. / Tell us that one about / Mattering. Ha ha, that was good. / You fall and fall, and it's

/ Forever funny. We'll schedule a service. You / Would have wanted closure. / On the tomorrow

show: dancing / People, cramped and sweating / After last call. Our horrible weapons / Are easy

targets. / Set a steady collision course. / The case was cracked before / Crimes were committed to

peace. / Thank you, Easter Bunny.  

Point Guard of the Future

You are talented at boring. / Freeze and be implicated / For many felonies.

It's a / Fun new dance: the Sleepwalk. / Put your hands on your / Hips.

Those aren't your hips. / Wander though watercolors, in / Search of an

original timepiece. / Why you so blue? It's the / Fresh new craze. It's

written / On your eyes, you want me. / C'mon, feel the pumping organs / And

feel the stomach. That's / Your baby brother, a / Highly regarded

cheeseburger. / I will translate us from / Poor to Wealthy. Seconds / Come

back off the / Clock. I'm trying to remember / Anything you ever did. /

Liars built the pyramids, Stone / By stone. I am ready to be popular /

Prepared to be rewarded. / Watch out university, here's / Johnny needing

love.

Jim Behrle