20140110.0700

I encounter funny things.

Heard on NPR
The program I do not recall
"I'll gut you
And fill your insides
With peppermint"
(Not broken up so,
Of course,
But this is a poem
And I have to do such things
Do I not?)

Seen in a stall
In the men's room
On the first floor of a library
"Poop every poop
Like it's your last poop"
(Again, not broken up so
But the caesura that seems to fall
Naturally
In English prosody
Falls there
And it is as good a place as any
To break a line)

Seen on a social media feed
(And with my apologies to the person
Whose feed I am quoting)
"Little strokes fell great oaks"
And then as now
I point out the phallic reference of a comment
Talking about stroking big hard wood

And then I looked in a mirror...