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November 18, 2021

Arcade Poems

Coleman Bomar

Hopeless


I feed the claw game
a dollar.

I feed the claw game
a dollar.

I feed the claw game
a dollar.

Behind glass

there's this purple bear
with button eyes

you'd love.

I feed the claw game
a dollar.

 

 

 

Chuck E. Cheese


This is no time
for fun.

I need tickets.

Tickets
trail behind me
like a tail.

I am an animal
starving
for more of itself.

 

 

 

Pac-Man/Depression


Swallowing dots
to outrun the ghosts

My open mouth

The maze