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Dave Bonta
Because the electric guitar had no hole,
in the middle of a song
the old bluesman lowered his mouth to it
& plucked the strings with his gold-
capped teeth.
Because the sawhorse had no head,
it didn’t know which way to run
when a plank saddled it,
& it let the saw whinny
for both of them.
Because the hermit had no wife,
he bought a clock
with a loud tick
& wound it faithfully once a week
with a little brass key.
Because the trailer had no cellar,
The feel of the air getting intense,
The sight of a funnel was astonishing,
Watching the funnel increase in size was terrifying,
I could feel the wind getting faster and faster,
I heard the sirens for tornados start up and get louder,
the wind felt as if I was waking side by side with a moving train,
as I got to safety,
I heard a sound as if something was just flinging thugs around,
I could feel the winds just above me,
I could hear the roaring wind,
I was watching the roof over my basement start to sink in towards us,
and then as we sat we no longer heard the roaring winds and no longer was our basement roof caving in,
a sign that it was now over,