Cannonball, and: Breaking the Girl, and: Come Out and Play

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Cannonball, and: Breaking the Girl, and: Come Out and Play Christopher DeWeese (bio) Cannonball Sitting in a Taco BellI want to burn maps I could be a knight gallantA blonde in a reggae song Babes stay out past curfewThey ponder Slash Under a code-red moonI’m in love with the past But I won’t know youAt the carnival [End Page 216] Breaking the Girl She was a placeWhere I got colds In my terrible faceShe kind of lived far away I estranged myselfI shot up the night with my arms I was abhorrentAnd she was a girl A lot of relationshipsSeem to end up this way [End Page 217] Come Out and Play It’s hard to recount your lifeWithout disrespecting anybody Like outrageous fashionsI try to keep it celebrated Keep in mind I was a childI was only sixteen I was into petty crimeFinding my own real I had so much timeTo hallucinate [End Page 218] Christopher DeWeese Christopher DeWeese is the author of The Black Forest and The Father of the Arrow is the Thought, both published by Octopus Books. He is currently Assistant Professor of Poetry at Wright State University. He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Copyright © 2015 University of Wisconsin Board of Regents