Friday, May 30, 2025

only one may win: a verse

Minivans crowd the parking stalls

Datsuns and Buicks at the wash

In our white Jesus we trust


As those wagons begin to roll

and the grinch begins to troll

I pin open my eager eyes


The south begins to soe

and that ready cannery row


Staring at the ceiling, I lie.

Ready to throw pounds of rice.


Buy a redemption tale

as the caged bird breaks jail

he does all the morning shows


As your empty hands hang at your sides

only one can win the prize

why dontcha question all you know


Falling flat hairy men go full-aware

Nothing else on earth compares

to all the pink crabs and striped shells


And the hammer and the bell

Chet and also in this issue: Uncle Alphonse's Son and the Redemption Song.

Somewhere between his and her pillows between Chad and Chud lies Chet, and his propensity for presumed proficiency alternating with stupefic...