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Postcards from the End · Aug 23, 2026

Linh Dinh reading more poems from A Mere Rica at Front Beach, Vũng Tàu on 8/23/26

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Linh Dinh · Postcards from the End

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7/4/13
Is it the Fourth of July yet?
So who should I shoot now?
Dude, can I jerk off your flag?
You’re welcome to stroke mine,
Then we can both massage
The Constitution, you know,
Roll it up, like this, and stuff
It up the Liberty Bell’s ass.
Man, I feel like voting again.
It’s like eating bad Chinese.
Did you elect this emoticon?
I’m bored, let’s waterboard
A whistleblower or two.
Global warming is cool,
So let’s all sleep naked,
Just like Bradley Manning.
I’ve never heard of him either.
You know what kicks ass?
A flag tattoo on a corpse,
Or guys pissing on a corpse.
Let’s snag some Army chicks
And make a naked pyramid.
Don’t join if you don’t want some.
Air Duct to Air Duct
To kiss is to threaten
To eat someone without
Actually chewing and swallowing.
It is also to wed digestive tracts,
Meaning the ultimate expression
Of intimacy, no less than
Having two assholes welded
Together, otherwise
Known as marriage.
Whits
Before he could tongue her, one of his teeth
Fell out. “That's OK,” he winked at his stale
Yet chirpy stablemate, “I still have plenty left.”
As if to prove it, he spat out a stringy and
Bloody assortment, then counted to ten
Before losing interest. He popped them back.
They kissed for the longest time, maybe even
A bit longer, since they had already paid too much,
You see, and had to get the most out of this swindle.
They had to milk it by any means necessary. “This
Is way overrated,” she grimaced. “Aren’t you gonna
Ask what I’ve been reading? It’s not Jonathan Swift,
That’s for sure. I mean, I like poetry and everything,
But soon as I bite into one... ” “You just wish you hadn’t,”
He finished the sentence for her. Speaking of sentences,
Some should be as long as the most tedious bridge
You will ever encounter, while others could be as brief
As this sunshiny life, and it always matters. Many whits.
Make it Swift
Many insist that the modern toilet
Is a male figure, a middle-aged grump
Complaining endlessly about what did
Or didn’t happen in his sighful life. Others
Will counter that the commode is actually
Quite a lovely lady, with enviable curves.
But what about that lid on her mouth?
“Other women are so envious of me.
I can’t sleep a wink, without worrying
That your wife, for example, will sneak
In here to steal my lid, and snap it onto
Her own lovely yet incomplete mouth.”
This poem is so full of it.
And I’m so full of it, being a
Sighful middle-aged creep. Ah!
But why do we read and digest
At the same time, desecrating
Both reasonably excusable acts?
So put this non-poem down, please,
And finish musing in relative peace.
Wrong Tool Man
Out of some desperate
Political, philosophical
And moral conviction, he uses
Scissors as toothpicks,
Books as footrests or chairs,
Hotels as sexy morgues,
Genitals as ghost limbs,
Brain as bowels,
Shakespeare as André Breton,
Life as afterlife,
Earth as moon.

Read the original on linhdinh.substack.com

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