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Nebraska Fantastic


Somebody pay me to watch this plane crash.








































Nebraska Fantastic
 

I make a Nebraska mule
from a bucket of meth-size hail.
Think about the data and the line
and the big wigs that indicate
the Midwest and the West.
Out of sorrow,
entire wolves have been built.
This story is very scary
for the mountains and history.
I beef out my body.
I make a little heart
out of salt and an onion
peel and
pee on it.

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Somebody pay me to watch this plane crash.
 

I go to Bomgaars shopping for pellets.
I am ready for anything
in the Professor job interview.
I imagine Nebraska.
Underpants, underpass.
I am the striding man
on Johnnie Walker.
The sky is skill
and the final interview is a fistfight.
Tremendous explosions of
what we know now.
Somebody pay me
to watch this
barn crash.

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SCOTT ABELS, originally from Nebraska, has an MFA from Boise State University. Recent work can be found (or is forthcoming) in Word for/Word, 751 Magazine, Hawai`i Review, Raft, Strange Machine, Poets for Living Waters, Spooky Boyfriend, The Denver Syntax, Fringe Magazine, and Sawbuck. Lately, he has been alternating years teaching on the coast of Oaxaca, Mexico and Honolulu. He has a little blog at http://scottabels.blogspot.com/

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