the middle east of your ribcage

the important thing about an argument  
is that in the midst  
of rage  
frustration  
throwing things with wires  
drawing a blank  
when  
someone answers a question  
with a question  
or quotes scripture  
is just when you least expect it  
you can jump on  
a mushroom  
get swolled  
do things you never thought were possible  
like save the princess  
from king bowser  
it  
don't know me like that  
 
i'm that dude  
know the contra code by heart  
learned the farsi phrase  
for  
will give bullets for candy  
long ago  
 
pizza man with the moustache had no kevlar  
i had  
that girl from the whitesnake video  
late night cinemaxing  
the hood of a car  
niether of us could ever afford  
on my wall  
 
he had hajir mohammed something  
who suicide bombed  
some old twa to berlin  
from gaza  
with three americans in first class  
a nat geo cameraman  
and three mexican american muslims  
seeing egypt  
and walking the perimeter of mecca twice  
to not disgrace their elders  
on his wall  
 
pictures  
paintings  
heroes  
hard ons that don't involve sex  
 
crosshairs on my third eye  
   
red dots dancing around where your heart should be  
 
direct chest hit doesn't blow ideology out the back  
 
she never comes home  
 
it all just starts over