The Truth
The beard is, in fact, growing!
It is growing!
This is an indication of
microscopic vibration.
But it is the beard I wish to welcome!
Yes, in another lifetime I was in love with you!
Yes, I found you very attractive!
You, arriving on a slow heavy bus!
What is important about you
is impossible to identify
but I'm going to visit a psychiatrist.
I believe a combination of
consoling and medication will distill
the beard into meaning!
I might also further my education!
I may incur debt that I'm willing
to pay off, beard!
.
It is growing!
This is an indication of
microscopic vibration.
But it is the beard I wish to welcome!
Yes, in another lifetime I was in love with you!
Yes, I found you very attractive!
You, arriving on a slow heavy bus!
What is important about you
is impossible to identify
but I'm going to visit a psychiatrist.
I believe a combination of
consoling and medication will distill
the beard into meaning!
I might also further my education!
I may incur debt that I'm willing
to pay off, beard!
.
The Facts
Turkeys enjoy torture.
They are adept at waterboarding
and hooding. They are experts
at sleep deprivation and leaving
white lights on all the time.
Turkeys like attaching electric
batteries to people's genitalia.
Turkeys also like genocide.
If you are interested in genocide,
or torture, you should
become friends with a turkey
who will stay up late telling you
torture and genocide stories.
Turkeys like genocide because
they like exterminating entire groups
of people. They like how the mass
graves fill up with people and so
all the extra dirt has to go somewhere
and they always make a giant hill
so that in winter they have a good
place to go sledding. Also, they like
the smell of stuff burning. Turkeys
feel like genocide brings them together.
They all feel more friendly and warmer
and TV shows get better because
everyone feels like family.
They are adept at waterboarding
and hooding. They are experts
at sleep deprivation and leaving
white lights on all the time.
Turkeys like attaching electric
batteries to people's genitalia.
Turkeys also like genocide.
If you are interested in genocide,
or torture, you should
become friends with a turkey
who will stay up late telling you
torture and genocide stories.
Turkeys like genocide because
they like exterminating entire groups
of people. They like how the mass
graves fill up with people and so
all the extra dirt has to go somewhere
and they always make a giant hill
so that in winter they have a good
place to go sledding. Also, they like
the smell of stuff burning. Turkeys
feel like genocide brings them together.
They all feel more friendly and warmer
and TV shows get better because
everyone feels like family.
Peter Davis is the author of the forhcoming book Poetry! Poetry! Poetry! (Bloof Books, 2010) and Hitler's Mustache (Barnwood Press, 2006). He teaches at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana where he lives with his wife and kids.