Single Shot Thoughts Would a pawn shop Sell me A single bullet? No need for a grassy knoll Or a single gun theory - One bullet, and a shining gun Would solve my world's problems. How Freudian it must be To mouth The end of a sleek, sexy barrel; Onanistic fury When Eros and Thanatos meet. Is it some latency That men use pistols For Kali's kiss? Or should I bring a holy gun To temple, A sacred, sideways epiphany? Athena's reverse, Slung into the brain, Stilling thought, Quieting memory, And Zeus sleeps. My body is a sacred shrine To pray. Holy, pure, ignorant, blank; So pills and poisons Will never do. Powerful guns, Symbolic of phallic death: No swallow needed. Nice boys never swallow. copyright 5 May 2000 by Earle B. 'Glas' Durboraw