I Will Support the Government After All
After a lot of newsy buildup
and lengthy lean over
the most beautiful postal employee
in Philadelphia says Oh you
are tattoo on your inside
What you lack in blonde you make up for
what you lack in fructose you make up for in
what you lack in verbs you make up for what
you lack in promises
you make up for in stamps
I purchased a pistol my cat says
"If this is war THIS IS WAR
"I was on the bus reading
"your poems to the people
"but I shall never promote you to
"this civil servant
Beneath his stylish that'll be a dollar
thirty-two must be a waiting list
many football fields long,
many pint-sizes have perspired
beneath his cowboy belt, bog of my heart,
oh his fur, his waist, his inks and gums
Of course, he is an actor, but he's not
a waiter, rather, his body's home
of low prices, both determined
and relaxed, with a vocabulary
to rival the hairs on his head
Copyright © Valerie Fox 2007 - 2008