Watching How with Long Hair I Am Accepted by the Nevada Four

We come from where women fistfight Four against none. We are passionate about blimps.                                       The parking lot Of the In-N-Out Burger drunk and mock lit: Four adorable girls and I crush no one’s teeth   To the green curb. We wolfpack the takeaway tray. A blimp could end this Curb-stomping. We could stop,   Rubberneck back, and O if a leaning blimp Would moon through this Reno-Sparks AM   Thick with the thump of half-neckpunch, Half-I-love-you. The idea of a blimp is thick in us. Only a blimp will do.                                     We wait. We can’t wait.                                     We fiend the newness of Levi’s and blimps that don’t show.   We hurricane inside and thumb murals of packet-mustard Upon our foreheads. Then, as if from outer space,   A mini-blue hand-fan buzzing in each fist, a naked man Drifts in as if not naked, banks a soft-left at the restrooms,               Hovers before the register, And orders a root-beer float from the secret menu.

 
Ephraim Scott Sommers

Ephraim Scott Sommers was born in Atascadero, California and received his MFA from San Diego State University. A singer and guitar player, Ephraim has produced three full-length albums of music and toured both nationally with his band Siko and internationally as a solo artist. His poetry has appeared in The Adirondack Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Columbia Review, Harpur Palate, New Madrid, RATTLE, RHINO Poetry, Verse Daily and elsewhere. His work is also forthcoming in Copper Nickel. The managing editor of Flashpoint: A Journal of Literature and Music, Ephraim is currently a doctoral fellow at Western Michigan University where he teaches creative writing. Please visit www.reverbnation.com/ephraimscottsommers.

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