Dr. Tin he said crush Viagra tabs in a sausage grinder and mix in fine aluminum powder, then file rust off the mainframe and pour that in. Pour that carefully into the CD drive, and keep moving it in and out till all the powder is gone. “Don’t worry if there’s a residue,” he say, “no one uses CDs anymore. “Want music, you click, click, click till you get sexy pulse.”
A Triptych of Poems By Bruce Reisner
Illustration by MR. Omar King

Three Iridescent Tone Poems
1.
Dr. Tin he said crush Viagra tabs in a sausage grinder and mix in fine aluminum powder, then file rust off the mainframe and pour that in. Pour that carefully into the CD drive, and keep moving it in and out till all the powder is gone. “Don’t worry if there’s a residue,” he say, “no one uses CDs anymore. “Want music, you click, click, click till you get sexy pulse.” I do like he say. Bad people who comment evil get the erection of death. Better have it cut off then die of the horny gangrene. Either way, the scumbag shut up.
2.
I ask Queen Shiskabula why she no care we get bugs. We have machines, they have machines. They try bug us, why not retaliate? “Does your brother not have a law degree he got online?” the Queen answers. “All the paper in Massachusetts can’t hurt us. Our machines are Scorpio. Their machines are Capricorn. No match for us.”
3.
There be this swine who dislikes us. He trolls. He snitches. He complains to youtube. Our platform is the radium that got Madame Curie’s fingers removed. We treated cancer, so how does anyone dare to say we are pernicious? A tumor in the bottle doesn’t lie.
About Bruce Reisner
Bruce Reisner is an artist/writer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His poems, fiction, essays and visual art have appeared in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, The Ranfurly Review, Sledgehammer Magazine, and the Gorko Gazette. He is currently working on a novel. His favorite romantic movie is director Ken Russell’s film Women In Love. The attached photo is by Jill Farrar.
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