Sometimes I want to pummel them
smashing my fists into their faces.
It’s usually a guy and it’s odd
because I’m not a violent person,
except when I have these mind movies.
Sometimes, I save a cop who
has been shot in the stomach
in a strip mall. I grab his pistol,
emptying the clip into the onrushing
assailant. Bad guy dead, I’m shot,
but ok. My photo is on the
evening news and in the morning
tabloids. Lots of these movies streaming
like a daydream multiplex in my head.
As a kid I was always the punchee
not the puncher. My liberal friends
are convinced I’m conservative and my
conservative friends think that
I’m a communist.