Send up to three poems on the subject of or at least mentioning the words hell and/or heaven, totaling up to 150 lines in length including stanza breaks, in the body of an email message or attached in a Word file to donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59 PM PDT on September 22nd. No PDF's please. Color and B&W artwork are also desired. Please send in JPG form. No late submissions accepted. Poets and artists published in Four Feathers Press Online Edition: Hell or Heaven will be published online and invited to read at the Saturday Afternoon Poetry Zoom meeting on Saturday, September 23rd between 3 and 5 pm PST.

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Matt McGee

PROUD PARENT


Michelle finally experienced 

the moment she'd been waiting for 

her whole parental career. 


“My daughter called me, yelling

‘Oh my God Mom, something’s 

wrong with the car!’”


So I slow her down, and I say

“OK baby, so when it stopped 

what did it sound like?”


“What do mean ‘what did it sound like?! 

THE RADIO WAS ON 

IT SOUNDED LIKE MUSIC!!”


Michelle waved her hands around, 

one with a cigarette in its yoke, eventually 

forming a ‘whoa, time out’ kind of T. 


“So I say ‘look, turn off Taylor Swift 

and describe what the car sounds like.’ 

And she says ‘it’s not Taylor Swift, mom 


it’s Highway to Hell.’ And I'm like ‘OK, at least 

I gave the kid good musical taste. Now 

I just need to get her a Triple-A card.”

 



NO OFFENSE, ABE


A trim, fit young woman 

crossed the porch of a sports bar

in front of a trim, fit young boyfriend

who looked like he could beat anyone

at any sport he choose. He flung open

the front door and the woman strode in, 

leaving Todd and Brian

leering in her wake.


Todd said “God bless the guy 

who invented yoga pants. There is 

a special place in heaven 

waiting just for him.”


Brian nodded. “Right up there 

with whoever invented the bikini.”


“Yep,” Todd agreed, his eyes

scanning the front window in hope

that the woman might slide into view,

the way a dog patrols a dinner table

for any dropped scraps.


“Yeah,” he added, “I mean, 

nothing against Abraham Lincoln

and his Constitution, but what good is 

Emancipation without that kind 

of proclamation?”


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