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It must have been da ovahload of anger
\nsurging through his veins
\n
\nalong wit da effects of tequila
\n
\ndat wen send da jousting knight
\ngalloping down da highway
\n
\nto stab wun oncoming classic Impala
\nright between da left double headlight.
\n
\nDat wuz part of da drama dat took place
\nout on da highway
\n
\nfoa everyone to see.
\n
\nComing down wun off ramp
\n
\nSir Catastrophe
\ntook it even further
\n
\nwen da hooves of his charger
\nwen trample ovah wun gaggle of baby geese
\n
\nsquashing dem all like bugs
\ninto da pavement\u2014
\n
\nNot even wun windmill chasing Don Quixote
\nwould have done dat.
\n
\nOut of control
\nand out of his mind
\n
\nda buggah wuz feeding
\nda heat of da moment
\n
\nlike wun swirling hurricane.
\n
\nDismounting on main street
\nin da suburbs
\n
\nLord-Holier-Den-Tao
\nwen pile it on
\n
\nwen he wen draw his sword
\n
\nand threatened to chop off da heads and arms
\nof people
\n
\ndat wen go running and screaming
\nthrough da neighborhood.
\n
\nWen da police arrived
\n
\nda suspect wuz seen
\nwalking into wun house across da street
\n
\nand he wuz easily identified
\n
\nby the broken heart emblem
\nemblazoned upon his chest.
\n
\nWun officer talked to his fair lady
\nup in her bedroom
\n
\nwhile assessing da damage
\n
\nof wun door dat wuz kicked in
\nearlier in da day.
\n
\nAnadah cop in da living room
\nmade him write down wun statement
\n
\nof wat transpired
\nin da tortured kingdom.
\n
\nAll da metaphors<\/p>\n
and da painful imagined scenes
\nof brutal chivalry
\n
\nmade as much sense
\n
\nas trying to find da words
\nto explain wat happened.
\n
\nYou can conjure up
\nany kine of diversionary tale you like
\n
\nbut it\u2019s still so sad
\nto finally realize and discover
\n
\ndat wen you have
\nwun aggressive hammer
\n
\neveryting looks like wun nail.<\/p>\n
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\nJoe Balaz writes in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin (Hawai’i Creole English) and in American English. He edited Ho’omanoa<\/em>: An Anthology of Contemporary Hawaiian Literature. Some of his recent Pidgin writing has appeared in Unlikely Stories Mark V, Otoliths,<\/em> and The Lake<\/em>, among others. Balaz is an avid supporter of Hawaiian Islands Pidgin writing in the expanding context of World Literature. He presently lives in Cleveland, Ohio.
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop<\/strong> is Editor of\u00a0Poetry Life and Times<\/a>\u00a0his publications include\u00a0All the Babble of the Souk<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Cartoon Molecules<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>collected poems and\u00a0Key of Mist<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>the recently published\u00a0Tesserae<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/a>translations from Spanish poets\u00a0Guadalupe Grande\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0Carmen Crespo\u00a0\u00a0visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop\u00a0<\/a>about author. \u00a0See Robin performing his work\u00a0Performance (Leeds University)<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n