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Buck Downs in Response to Feng Sun Chen

it was just a little putty turtle

​UNDERTALES for FENG SHUN CHEN         




OKAY SO HERE
 

the coelacanth retreated
to the marianas trench,
the deepest bottom
of the sea, right. We got
to get to some non-shipping
part of the ocean is how it went.
Even then, we were causing
trouble, it was in our hands.
 
the origin of that retreat, hey --
       where would it be
            without us?
 
        digging crates
of human treasure          

 

EPIDURAL
 

so they pulled a putty turtle out of me
I wanted to say make it snappy pappy
        but I was in no condition --
I thought it was fucking enormous
                     up inside me --
      like being chased by a tail --
             it got all my attention --
but when I got to see it post-ectomy
it was just a little putty turtle.

 
ROAST CHICKEN
 
it’s good to have
       something funny
like broken leg
        ha-ha-ha
to break the ice again
after they find out
and the fresh ice sets in.
        my grip on how
to get a conversation
        is furtive



LISTEN
 

you poop under the sheltering sky
and maybe it’s time to give
civilization a little credit
 
tools are very essential for mining
as they allow you to destroy blocks
faster and more efficiently.
 

 
(I GOT THIS) DRINKING THING
 

when I came to
the glass of coke
had sat out so long
it looked like tea
and I took a pull
expecting tea
and getting
watery coke,
the shocks through which we love
 
 

​Buck Downs's latest book is TACHYCARDIA: Poems 2010-1012, available from Edge Books. He works as an executive writing coach in Washington DC.

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