Please Don’t Make Me Shoot You

~Matthew Tierney

 

Just one day out of life just one

Morning so what do you think the most borrowed item by a

neighbour you know i was going to say lawnmower but

It ain’t easy

Shoes oh i love shoes especially

When you need a mortgage and you need it now

It don’t matter if you’re black or white

When that breeze is blowing

Put on your red shoes and dance the blues

Let it all out

Thursdays the reindeer stop by and on fridays

The pieces that were left to die brought

Bad guys like me every day is a first can i take my gun

 

[Monday + overcast + “blue”]

 

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Matthew Tierney studied science before turning to poetry. His latest collection, The Hayflick Limit, considers “the boundaries of the cosmic and sub-atomic—how the mind contains both.”

 

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