Deer Hunting USA / Time Crisis

Two more from the Regal Series - Again, I'm inspired by the mundane goings-on in the lobby which I had to man for seemingly endless hours. The arcade machines run on loops, over and over again, until they have wormed their way into my brain, and eventually onto the page...

Deer Hunting USA

When’s the last time you used an orange, sawed-off, pump action shotgun
to hunt down digital deer in a covered wood?
When’s the last time you had seventy-five cents?
Money well spent.

Be a big game hunter.
Shoot the buck in the neck.
Collect your trophy
and know your money’s well spent.

Insert a coin and watch him run.
List your initials to remember the fun.
These bullets don’t penetrate or shatter the glass –
There’s no dent.
You know in your head your money’s well spent.

You wanna get in the game?
Make the Idaho Top 10?
Here’s a hint:
Winner’s don’t use drugs.
Their money’s better spent.

2.2004

Time Crisis

Time Crisis –
Break out the twin guns,
Look distinctly American,
Mix broken English and Japanese,
Brother and brother,
Die side by side,
Lover and lover,
Walk away bored.

Time Crisis –
So many dead,
So many bullets,
Left spent on the ground,
How did this happen?
How were we taken over?
Where is an army?
What can two men do?
What is the crisis?

One.
Two.
Now Three.
Time Crisis.

2.18.2004