BECAUSE BONE CELLS
ONLY LIVE FOR TEN YEARS
Don Kingfisher Campbell is founder of POETRYpeople youth writing
workshops, publisher of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of
the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Wednesday Afternoon Critique workshops,
and host of Monday Night Poetry in Pasadena. His first book of poetry, "Enter," was published by iUniverse Press.
By Don Kingfisher Campbell
We happen to love
to be toe wrestlers
You say I have the
longest tongue in the world
To me you have always been
the greatest eyeball popper
Even if people tell me
I could use a hand transplant
When we get together we're
sexier than balloon sculptures
I declare you can hold a live
rattlesnake in your mouth
Me, I'm a human domino falling
forever in lust without a parachute
Let everyone else balance
spoons on their faces in envy
Published May 2006
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