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Poetry | August 2011

The Real Ghostbusters: Egon and Peter vs. Fallujah

By Aline Pusecker Taylor

Proton packs strapped to your backs, first-grade
Ghostbusters on the attack, you
track, room to room, full-torso apparitions and class five
full-roaming vapors.

PKE Meters show spectral activity in the bathroom. Ecto
goggles on, ghost traps set, today you are Egon
and Peter, bent in a doorway, portal
to another dimension.

Spector in sight, a positive-charged stream of particles
immobilizes the ghost. Beware of crossing streams, something
bad will happen. Total proton reversal, life as you know it
ceasing to exist.

*****************

Seventy-pound packs strapped to your backs, Private First Class
tracks booby-traps set. Bent in a doorway,
portal to another dimension.

Body armor on. Streams from
an M-16. Life as you know it ceasing to exist.

2 replies on “The Real Ghostbusters: Egon and Peter vs. Fallujah”

Jessicasays:
August 8, 2011 at 9:22 am

Beautiful.

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Aline Taylorsays:
August 16, 2011 at 5:19 am

Thanks Jessica :)

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