out with a bang

johnny decided he wanted to
go out with a bang,
sure, he figured that he could
drop a couple bottles of pills or
put a pistol to his head, but the
drama just wasn’t there &
to make the world listen he had
to up the stakes, he had to
really work at it,
so he thought, “why not let the
crazies do me in?”

he sat down & started to draw
cartoons that ridiculed
“muhammad,”“ jesus,” “moses,”
“allah,” “yahweh” & all the
hilarious characters from those
fairytale books that had propelled
so many others into mad violence
in the present & the past---
then he painted paintings, made
snuff films (where they were
all screwing each other in the
forest) & he even wrote a couple
songs making fun of them &
sent them to stations all over
the empire & then
wouldn’t you know it,
in only a little time
(lickety-split),
snipers were on his doorstep &
bombs were in his basement…
because
nobody
fucks
with
fiction.