26.3.06

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6 comments:

Anna Nimh said...

Holy shit, Aaron. It looks like you were punched in the face, and here I thought you just had a couple of teeth pulled.

Dent Burntrap said...

punched? probably.
teeth? nope... tooth.
just tooth.
shit? no question in my mind.

I want to go back.
to the way things used to be.

when I was whole.
doo doo dooooo
when i was whole
doo dee doww

Dent Burntrap said...

Hey, you guys remember when i used to be more me?
I do.

now part of me is in an envelope.

I chewed some of the meat off my pulled tooth.
there were some pretty good size chunks on it.
big enough to actually taste. like meat that is.
it was like a flake of that jerky chew you can buy in what looks like tobacco tins. just not teriyaki flavored.
but no less delicious.

E T C said...

gross, hardly...
its a way of life.

Its not like I haven't eaten any chucks of gum flesh out of Aaron's mouth before.

geez.

etc

Anna Nimh said...

That's a beautiful fucking poem, Aaron. I think it really touches on the frustration of feeling incomplete in such a hurried world, and the yearning to go back to days of youth, when completeness was not even a question.

And the onomatopoeia works...the "doo dee doww" communicates the confusion perfectly while maintaining a sing-song quality that makes it universally accessible.

I'm a fan.

E T C said...

ummm.... dan.

are you trying to be funny?

Cuz, ummm, well, remember when you talked about everybody else and kind of left yourself out of the equation of how funny people are? yeah, well, your not very funny either. not like Grant or Nate funny... not even Carlson funny. You're Dan funny. which really, is only kind of funny in person... and not funny at all over the internet. Copy and Paste that!