J.J. Campbell (1976 – ?) was raised by wolves yet managed to graduate high school with honors. He’s been widely published over the years, most recently at Misfit Magazine, The Rye Whiskey Review, Live Nude Poems, Yellow Mama and Horror Sleaze Trash. You can find him most days on his mildly entertaining blog, evil delights. (https://evildelights.blogspot.com)

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i guess

if you

really

want

to kill

people

ash

wednesday

is a good

day to

practice

with that

bullseye

on their

head and

all

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drove through the

old neighborhood

yesterday and all

the devastation

left behind by

the memorial

day tornado

a few hours later

i heard the mayor

tell the media the

cleanup was all

over and it’s time

to start to rebuild

i laughed and

remembered

exactly why i

moved away

that disconnect

from reality by

all the elected

officials

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i remember when

they decided to

make all the medical

records electronic

and here i am, over

a decade later, filling

out sheets and sheets

of info

just imagining all the

trees that died for this

meaningless bullshit

progress is always

attainable

as long as you really

fucking want it

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they found a guy

in the trash at the

dump still alive

i could just imagine

that being one hell

of a way to wake up

from a little nap in

a dumpster

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two days

two earthquakes

the biggest felt

in twenty years

pretty soon the

much feared big

one will be upon

us

i’m waiting for

most of the state

to break off into

the ocean

just like the

conservatives

have always

dreamt about

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J.J. Campbell

51 Urban Ln.

Brookville, OH 45309-9277