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    In Die Die Dinosaur, maggots perhaps foretell the future and a political candidate might get their throat slit with a spam lid. The only named character in these gritty poems is “Nigel” who could be a peeping Tom from outer space. Perhaps it is Nigel who witnesses the shattering relevance of “when (the) bay doors of the pod close...this entire election cycle: poof.” —Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, author of Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress and The Messenger is Already Dead Candy and rust abound in Michael Sikkema's new collection of poems. Die Die Dinosaur is a series of short psychobilly stanzas that run from humorous to poignant and across the growth and decay of both the natural and man-made worlds. This book looks to the future and its possibilities even if that possibility is probably our own extinction. —Kenyataa JP Garcia, author of What Do the Evergreens Know of Pining, Yawning on the Sands, and Enter the After-Garde 1998-2010 Michael Sikkema is from rural Michigan. Say hello at michael.sikkema@gmail.com. Book Information: · Paperback: 102 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-275-4

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    In Die Die Dinosaur, maggots perhaps foretell the future and a political candidate might get their throat slit with a spam lid. The only named character in these gritty poems is “Nigel” who could be a peeping Tom from outer space. Perhaps it is Nigel who witnesses the shattering relevance of “when (the) bay doors of the pod close...this entire election cycle: poof.” —Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, author of Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress and The Messenger is Already Dead Candy and rust abound in Michael Sikkema's new collection of poems. Die Die Dinosaur is a series of short psychobilly stanzas that run from humorous to poignant and across the growth and decay of both the natural and man-made worlds. This book looks to the future and its possibilities even if that possibility is probably our own extinction. —Kenyataa JP Garcia, author of What Do the Evergreens Know of Pining, Yawning on the Sands, and Enter the After-Garde 1998-2010 Michael Sikkema is from rural Michigan. Say hello at michael.sikkema@gmail.com. Book Information: · Paperback: 102 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-275-4

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    In Die Die Dinosaur, maggots perhaps foretell the future and a political candidate might get their throat slit with a spam lid. The only named character in these gritty poems is “Nigel” who could be a peeping Tom from outer space. Perhaps it is Nigel who witnesses the shattering relevance of “when (the) bay doors of the pod close...this entire election cycle: poof.” —Jennifer MacBain-Stephens, author of Your Best Asset is a White Lace Dress and The Messenger is Already Dead Candy and rust abound in Michael Sikkema's new collection of poems. Die Die Dinosaur is a series of short psychobilly stanzas that run from humorous to poignant and across the growth and decay of both the natural and man-made worlds. This book looks to the future and its possibilities even if that possibility is probably our own extinction. —Kenyataa JP Garcia, author of What Do the Evergreens Know of Pining, Yawning on the Sands, and Enter the After-Garde 1998-2010 Michael Sikkema is from rural Michigan. Say hello at michael.sikkema@gmail.com. Book Information: · Paperback: 102 pages · Binding: Perfect-Bound · Publisher: BlazeVOX [books] · ISBN: 978-1-60964-275-4

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    Die

    Die
    Dinosaur

    MICHAEL SIKKEMA

    BLAZEVOX[BOOKS]
    Buffalo, New York
    Die Die Dinosaur by Michael Sikkema
    Copyright 2017

    Published by BlazeVOX [books]

    All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced


    without the publishers written permission, except for brief
    quotations in reviews. Printed in the United States of America

    Interior design and typesetting by Geoffrey Gatza


    Cover Art by Gary Barwin

    First Edition
    ISBN: 978-1-60964-275-4
    Library of Congress Control Number: 2017930007

    BlazeVOX [books]
    131 Euclid Ave
    Kenmore, NY 14217

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    Nigel believed me suicidal just for saying
    the words country music but hes
    the kind of person who hums in the check-out
    lane thinking about a holstein cow covered
    in suction cup dildoes

    11
    Listen to me closely when
    Im going to talk about
    goat heads

    12
    I own my complete bones
    the box set
    after just a few low payments
    after anyone is on fire enough
    anyone buries me deep in
    the Green Valley gas station
    parking lot

    13
    I have all these
    white helicopter stories and
    lousy aim

    14
    We have
    just learned
    that the town is
    changing its
    name to Joystick

    so be aware
    that the line
    forms here

    You can have


    gas from your
    rotting corpse
    light a little lamp
    for your family
    to picnic near

    Its BYOB

    15
    All this talk about
    exit speed and
    I cant even
    get my weather
    balloons straight

    16
    Nice squad of maggots came by
    said to tell you to forget about
    the whole thing with the ocean

    17
    its all just candy and rust is
    what the ranger had taught the crow
    to say to paying customers after
    seven years of not really trying

    18
    The truth is that
    it takes all kinds, even
    these barfy starfish

    19
    Stop calling me porcupine

    20
    Pressed for time like spring dafs
    we learn to hate two bosses at once. We make
    the goats ill with warm oil so theyll pass
    the poison rhodedendrens while we dress
    for supper with the dignitatary whose throat
    well slit with the lid of a spam can. Please
    keep this portion for your records

    21
    Today well picnic and discuss
    consent. Hopefully
    tomorrow finds us all three in
    peach juice and goggles

    22
    Some heroes have vibratory
    saddles, right?

    23
    I was supposed to pay a man to let
    me talk like everybody

    24

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