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***BIO*** Mark Vanner is 28yrs of age and currently lives in Nottingham, surviving on a strict diet of pot noodles and cheap lager. His poems have appeared in both magazines and books world wide, In 2004 his poem 'It Only Hurts When You Walk Away' was short listed for the forward top 100 award.

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The Butterfly “FLY” Effect Experiment

by Mark Vanner

It was summer
And it was hot,
Fucking hot…

And for every fly that I would kill
I knew that in some distant place
Another human would drop down with it.

So I swung -

Hard and pure
Huge thwacks into thin air

From London to New York,
Afghanistan to Baghdad -

Id watch the cocksuckers fall.

Sheiks dying on sidewalks,
Presidents copping it on Oprah -

The Butterfly “FLY” effect I called it,

Because I was tired of flies
Like I was tired of humans -

And soon there was no one left.

Except me,

And that little fat guy from ‘Lost’.

Shit, huh?

Oct. 2006