2 Poems by Melanie Browne |

Good Price on brand new AK47

I know it’s late
and Elvis has
already left
the building
which I’m pretty
sure is an expression
which means he
went out
to track a
Woolly Mammoth
wearing an
inadequate coat
I just found
a good price
on a brand
new AK47
my brother
tells me
it would be
an excellent
investment

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Some trees are raging alcoholics

angry at the sky
pissing themselves,
thinking impure
thoughts,

Yet it is
Impossible
For them
To attend
Meetings,

Some trees
are anti-social
and unbending,
always trying to
wrap their head
around
this, that,
or the other,

a feeling of
numbness
when the
axe hits
their listless
limbs

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Melanie Browne's poetry has appeared in various online journals including Madswirl and Gloom Cupboard. Her first Chapbook, Heaven is a Giant Pawn Shop is available from Erbacce Press and has been reviewed in the Summer 2009 - Issue 101 of CommonLine. She is a co-editor at Leaf Garden Press.