Sunday, January 12, 2014

mmlxviii

Take me, then, to the licentious decade!
It’s a small cake but you nevertheless

get the feeling that something could
very well pop out of it at any moment.

I am really digging all of the jokes
about the Boy Scouts of America.

I don’t mind saying this because
I myself was scout. T he sad kid

staring out through the tent flaps
at a pasture glazed with a coat

of snowy ice or icy snow.  What-
ever the case, it’s still mostly just

ice.  Was that you dreaming about
a golf course for a back yard?  A

dime a dozen
, I say, thinking
further about the many others

longing for games of two in one
hole.  But take a look around.

Could this just be the licentious
decade?  Whatever the case,

I say we just live it.  Has it
happened all before?  Is it

happening now?  Could it
really only be our first time?

Boohoo!  Snooze!
Oh, Sunday afternoon!

birthday cake for mom