Poem: Impact

Impact

Jaguar of dalliance, courage in a

bottlecap, jimmy the jungles till they

spill forth in a river of

specieage, gumdrop froglets,

remote control fish,

mosquitoes that do your taxes.

If you need it we got it,

a guy who knows a guy who

squeezes a wholesale from

the tendons of a twelve-

year-old in Sri Lanka.

A continent of ocean where the

dolphins play with water bottles,

where the whales eat sporks and

the jellyfish wear sandwich

bags like ballcaps.

The dinosaurs have come back

in liquid form to muck the

skies, foul the waters and

claim revenge for the

asteroid but seriously I

can get you that tie for

five bucks downtown.

The Ranfurly Review

Scotland

From the collection Fields of Satchmo

Photo by MJV