FRESH TALENT WARZONE

Everything that's happening

is between the notes.

We use the actual notes

for performance value.

And logos?

those are no-go's,

they make bands

look like yo-yo's,

dangling by a string

from a biting hand that feeds.

We use bass that not only

looks a gift horse in the mouth,

it turns it inside out

and hangs it out to dry

by it's tonsil bumps.

We use guitarists

for human whammy bars,

bending them from steel

to rubber to molten wax.

It is not uncommon

to use drumstix for kindling,

just prior to burning

the rest of the drumset.

We use the severed testicles

of fresh recruits for castanets.

Musicians return

from playing our songs

with huge chunks

of their skulls missing

and raw daylight pouring

through gaping holes.