Wish List After Using a 3D Printer
by Terry Belew
Please print our slices of pizza
so we don’t have to go outside
or greet the delivery driver.
Print a mask to hide
our face from ourselves
and one another. Print
a Glock .40 in case someone
comes through the open window.
Print a tangible god
to provide an escape
from the constant terror
of becoming nothing.
Print a bronze statue
to topple at a protest/riot,
the noun chosen
by the news network
we believe most. Print us
a pint of bourbon
because every Monday
we say goodbye
and hello and goodbye.
Print us a new
friend or spouse or child
because we are surprised
to feel alone in a place
so filled. Print now a new shield
because if we are gunpowder
that makes god raw brass.
This poem originally appeared in West Trade Review.