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Hang On To Your Chairs Ass Bomb poem by Bill Campana AZpoetry.com

2025

Hang On To Your Chairs (Ass Bomb)

By Bill Campana

Campana imagines returning to school to invent a bomb that kills nobody and merely knocks everyone in the world onto their backside, replacing mass destruction with a shared moment of ridiculousness.