Damon Hubbs

Heavy Metal

we think in thorium and mercury
jutting hips 
like tailgate tableau 
in heavy metal parking lots

we think in lead and radium
strutting lips 
like streaked rearview 
in heavy metal parking lots

lovers 
and love 
errs 
periodically

you with a copy 
of The Catcher in the Rye
alloyed in the waist 
of your Levi’s—

we think in chromium and arsenic 
cutting up and folding in
the acid trips 
of heavy metal parking lots

we smoke
slam nuclei into each other
exist for a fraction
then disappear into other elements 

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