- Keith Banner
Pizza and HBO
this house
looked like it was
just punched in the face
and everybody inside
it
just got punched in the face too
all their faces
fucked
up and
this house
it had lost its
sense of humor
it already had a spotty
record
but then
there you go
and suddenly
you're looking
at some skunk-
lawyer
telling you
well
you don't have a place to live
that house
was just, well,
shit
a collection of trophies
melted into
a shape
that house
was
a living room lamp
in a ditch in
muncie indiana
that house
was a can of soup
a goddamn sleeping-bag
a statler brothers song
recorded on
a cassette tape
slightly warped
in the backseat of
a really shitty
1971
station-wagon
at one time
it was
something else
i guess
a palace to live in
someplace to unload
your groceries into
happy times
like
pizza and hbo
ok?
pringles and
who's the boss?
somebody had a bunch of dreams
inside
that house
completely random ones
about
reptiles and kmart
about
xrays and thunder
about
candles and underwear
and then that
special someone
woke up
with a
black eye
