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.)

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.