Back in the 90's, I had a hobby of following my friends around at clubs and making them write bad poetry for me. The word poetry was used very loosely. Well, completely incorrectly would be a better term since it was also used for articles, completely fabricated self-help columns and random complete and utter nonsense.
These are the results of those (often drunken) ramblings.






Saturday, November 24, 2012

Sexually Frustrated



Sexually Frustrated
By Monica

A cookie
So tiny, yet so full of joy
For whoever gets to eat it
I saw a cookie
A few weeks ago
That I really want to
Sink my teeth into
Such a nice looking cookie
I’m really sure
It tastes pretty good
God I want a piece
Of that cookie.

Also known as Mmm...A Cookie! and the inspiration for one of my first film  school projects. It's the first Hiroshima Club poem to transend media! Enjoy the movie below who also happens to feature the author in one of the starring roles (she plays the friend of the girl who is trying to hook up with the goth guy.)



Thursday, November 22, 2012

Fish and Chips



Fish and Chips
By Unknown

What is Arthur’s Treasure? Is it his girlfriend’s box
That smells like fish and he munches on it while
Watching old 70’s reruns? Or is it the secret way
He batter his fish with that special homemade
Batter. Whatever his secret  is, we will never know
But it sure does smell fishy in here.

It says Unknown, but I'm pretty sure this was written by Monica. She would get this intense hatred for random stores in the mall. Not that she had ever shopped or eaten there, if she could see it from the food court stand where she worked and she could find any reason to disapprove, she would write a poem about it.


 I must say this is a particularly unpleasant drawing that accompanies this poem. I can't even think of anything else to say about it, I just don't want to look at it anymore.

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Alcohol



Alcohol
By Anise

A little bit happy
It makes you a fucking idiot
One “oops” incident
And you’re the fuck of the town

So this was supposedly written by the dog...I'm gonna go ahead and blame in on Anastasia. I wish I had a really good story about how this dog had a really bad problem with alcohol and would get really slutty...actually I think it would be funnier if she was a mean drunk and went around telling people what she REALLY thought of them.




I have no idea why the accompanying graphic is a TV set that is either endorsing snacks or a 70's cop show. On a semi-related note. when we were little Monica had a crush on Erik Estrada who played Officer Ponch on CHiP's so she cut out a picture of him off the tv guide and ate it. Not really sure n the logic of that, but we giggled about it for years. We'd be laying in bed trying to go to sleep or something and one of us would say "Remember that time I (you) had a picture of Erik Estrada and I (you) ate it?" And we would just laaaugh...That kids, is how we kept ourselves entertained way back in the days before the internet.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

I'm a genius

This has nothing to do with anything and it's not even from the same time period as the Hiroshima Club, since I just made her a few weeks ago but she came out really good and I felt like bragging.


Her name is Olive.

Friday, November 16, 2012

Anise



Anise
By Anastasia

Anise the dog
Quite obnoxious
She’s adorable
Dumb, dumb dog
Gotta love her




I have no  idea who this Anastasia was. I think I have mentioned this before. All I remember is that she was a friend of Monica's and that she owned Anise. I wonder if she will ever come across this and be really offended that I remember her dog but not her. I wonder if she's the one who drew that fabulous portrait of Anise. But most of all I wonder, who the hell was Anastasia?

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Diva



Diva
By Monica

Anise can’t eat Cheetos
Only drinks bottled water
Can’t cross the street alone
Mom won’t let her stay home
Alone for too long
Her barking’s so annoying
Her Vienna sausage
Looks so yummy
She’s tiny and divine
Go get laid
Cuz I want a puppy

I always  forget who's dog Anise was. I've asked Monica  a million times and I still always forget. I just know that it was some friend of hers.
Apparently Anise was very popular at the time because there's quite a few poems about her coming up and even a Reader Profile even though I don't think she ever actually read the zine. She might have peed on it once though.

BTW, I must take a minute here to say Vienna Sausages are very underrated. Yes they look more like erasers than actual food and that water that they come packed with smells kinda nasty, but my mom has been making those since I was little and I kinda like them. Must be the same way Americans feel about Baloney. Yes, I know I'm technically American too being that I was born in the US and I live here but I mean the kind of Americans without Cuban parents to make them yellow rice with Vienna sausages.

I never had fried baloney until I was like 23.