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OH, MY CALIFORNIA BOYS
(THE FINAL PAYOFF)

those California boys
would be twins, would
be evil,
what do they know
about zombie apocalypse
wars of the roses?

world of the dead come
to annihilate
every premise of
narrative
every rule of our being

some game this when
from chess to
coin flips it takes
its headlong tangent

when mythology, prophecy
is a thing
thrown out the

window
not for love
but for
the fans, the shock,
the adrenaline ratings

Oh, my California boys
how flat the sea looks, how
easy for sailing

every hollowed-out archetype brazen
on deck, thinking themselves
a. Hector, a Helen, Cassandra, Odysseus

and then
the payoff as they sink

miles from Troy’s golden contested beaches
watched by
brainless Polyphemus but
not his father Poseidon
him
you lulled into an eternal sleep