Formica Counter Culture

xSiameseGunx: fueled by

the offbeat crackle of

dial-up internet

KnitASilhouette: we got high

off double bounces

xSiameseGunx: on a trampoline

missing springs

KnitASilhouette: and ditch weed

in my mom’s attic

xSiameseGunx: ...

KnitASilhouette: no longer afraid

of heights

xSiameseGunx: we learned how

to hover

& lose our heads

KnitASilhouette: in the clouds

of an acute

hallucination

xSiameseGunx: like midair

molotov cocktails

KnitASilhouette: doused in

cucumber-melon

xSiameseGunx: …

KnitASilhouette: but realistically

were more like

shaken up soda cans

xSiameseGunx: volatile not violent

‘KnitASilhouette: all fizz no fuss

xSiameseGunx: …

KnitASilhouette: did we really steal

nietzche books

to let them drown

in dust?

xSiameseGunx: ...

KnitASilhouette: did we liberate

garden plants

so their roots

could tangle

into suffocating

knots?

xSiameseGunx: …

KnitASilhouette: this town is a vortex

xSiameseGunx: that can only be seen

through eyeholes

KnitASilhouette: eaten out of pancakes

at late night diners

xSiameseGunx: …

KnitASilhouette: suburban surrealism

xSiameseGunx: entirely intangible

Aaron Tyler Hand is a writer of poetry and nonfiction currently at the TXST MFA program. He has previously been published in Faultline Journal, GASHER Journal, Hart House Review, Four Chambers Press, Meniscus, and a handful of Xeroxed zines. In addition to his own creative writing pursuits, Aaron volunteers his time to the prison teaching non-profit Down South Word of Mouth.