VINYL POETRY

Volume 1, August 2010

BIRDIE
Melissa BroderView Contributor’s Note

Fugazi Shame

No Fugazi trains ever ran for little old me the Pink Floyd shuttle provided alternate service between duckling and chicken. I feel passed over, I’m a pity pot, I cannot blame my parents no punk boyfriend delivered the perfect mixtapes; that I was too busy waiting for cashout at King Soopers, sick to death of slicing choice boneless ribeye or otherwise engaged at The Dark Side of The Moon laser light show, 27 times, holding Chronic in a Barbie lunchbox (I preferred to be the one holding, I really love power). Yes, sometimes it seems everybody good got a piece of Ian McKaye growing up, girls even; at a used bookstore in Boulder, one lady told me she listened to Christian rock exclusively before she landed Ian; Fugazi about-faced her from a dunghole- snarfing-piggie, a spectator, security guard for a shit shelter into a baby blanket of perfect compassion. Fugazi is an American punk band formed in 1987. I think I’d like to be a fallen Christian.