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Even My Air Guitar Is Lame


by J. Bradley


I had the hair of a metal god, cracking it against the air whenever the stereo belched fists.  I wore Metallica and Pantera on my neck like a brace for days after.  Yet when I unpacked my left arm and stomach like a guitar, I contaminated the living room with the snapped chords of my fingers.  

What sealed my fate as a metal mortal was my unwillingness to be chewed and spat out of the maw of mosh pits.  I stuck to using the front door as target practice for the .22 caliber shell of my shoulder, the spent casings of my heavy breathing beating like a carbon monoxide drum machine.  

I sheared my hair, drowned it in blue, wore copies of Billy Corgan's "ZERO" t-shirt, raged like a rat in a cage instead of riding the lightning.
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