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Big Bang

Poem by Jeremy Frey : Reactive Drawings by Ten Artists

No. 28  :  Fall/Winter 2011

the Big Easy made even simpler, the Bib Apple's bang shrunk & shriveled, compared...

  
  
the Big Easy made even simpler, the Big Apple’s bang shrunk & shriveled, compared

to the big one; maybe the next big bang comes from big bertha wannabes from heaven
finding a berth on the outskirts of the Big D. The big cheese retired on his ranch longs

for big game, the big baby misses his big mama, his big talk a big-ticket ticking toward
the big time, a big-leaguer with a big idea suffering the Big C after telling a big lie.
Somehow missed the big house, the bigmouth’s belly big with bile,

the big enchilada never saw the big picture, his big deal not seen as the Big O
from the perspective of his Big Brothers living on Big Diomede. His big-ticket big steal
didn’t go over big, instead seen as a big problem; the Big Belt Mountains & the Bighorns
not big enough, the Big Five no longer making big bucks, Big Ben no longer ticks,

Big Brother still peeps, the Big Board got full of itself, big headed the big boys made
bigwigs of biggity bigots riding the big wheels in the center ring of the big top.
Started way back when big business the big shot became the big gun from Washington,
lifted the big stick carried through the Big Band era to the Big Beats.
Today bigger is better:

big balls and big breasts

pig balls and pig breasts

pigs pall and pigs pressed,

the Big Mac attacks the left ventricle.

  

  
 

 

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