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***BIO*** My name is Drew Chial, I hail from the mini-apple Minneapolis Minnesota. I am the founder of the God Hates Globes faux religious movement (www.godhatesglobes.com), and the frontman for the band Klutz. My poetry has been featured in the February 2006 issue of The Meta Ball (www.metaball.ca), and I'm working on a chapbook called Choken Word.
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Our Little Davey
by Drew Chial
The police will send you away
with no more than a "nobody likes a tattle tale"
then every man and their uncle
will have a street wise vigilantly group to refer you to
people who know people
who know some shit
they'll tell you somethings in place
that the hammer is about to drop

This is the only way to get justice

What should be a game of chicken
will become a game of tug of war
what should be a battle of wits
will become a battle of networking skills
What should be a fair trial
will become a class action lawsuit
what should be a rush for the throne
will become a PR campaign

You won't be able to take a piss
without somebody watching your back
you'll walk down the street
as people nod to you like a mob don
everyone is so proud of their little Davey
with his sling shot in his back pocket
there's a giant ego that needs slaying
and you're just their boy to do it

Self appointed private eyes will call you
in the middle of the night
to tell you Goliath's home address
to tell you the make and model of his car
urban profilers will slip envelopes
underneath your front door
a stackof papers from the public archive
teaming with his criminal history

Your father will fit you with a hernia belt
that just so happens to have a velcro holster
he'll put something metal in your hand
and ask how the weight of it feels

You'll count the exists as you enter rooms
You'll cut peep holes in the bathroom door
You'll watch everybody in your blind spot
You'll sit with your back against the wall
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June 2006