West Trade Review Online Exclusive: "Wish List After Using a 3D Printer" by Terry Belew

Terry Belew

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Terry Belew lives in rural Missouri and is an Instructor at State Technical College of Missouri. An MFA student in the low-residency program at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, his work has appeared in such journals as Storm Cellar, The American Journal of Poetry, Tar River Poetry, The Fourth River, and Split Rock Review, among others.

Wish List After Using a 3D Printer

Please print our slices of pizza

so we don’t have to go outside

or greet the delivery driver.

Please print a mask to hide

our face from ourselves

and one another. Please print

a Glock .40 in case someone

comes through the open window.

Please print a tangible

god to provide

an escape from the terror

of becoming nothing.

Please print a bronze statue

to topple at a protest riot,

the noun chosen

by the news network

we believe most. Please print

a pint of bourbon

because every Monday

we say goodbye

and hello and goodbye.

Please print us a new

friend or spouse or child

because we are surprised

to feel alone in a place

so filled. Please print a new shield

because if we are gunpowder

that makes god raw brass.

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