Bugger Me

by Kathy Powers

Bugger me you buggerers
When I’m not around.
Tell me all your nasty things
When I can’t be found.

Sing me songs of ugliness
When my ears are plugged.
Drink to all my loneliness
When I’m being hugged

If you do these things for me
Then I’ll strike you back;
I’ll ignore your pleas for happiness
When your hour’s most black.

A win, win, win, solution:

 

Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border. Take the dirt, raise the levies in New Orleans, and put the Florida alligators in the moat. 

Are there any other problems you would like for me to solve?

Blizzard Time

Gangway!

'Tis not the grey day
When listen I some hearsay
Announcing data doomsday!
Neigh, not today
I say, I pray...

Okay, I'll do an exposé
Old label files, my prey:
Elusively stray,
Surely not cast away;
Lost causes, passé.

Ole! I convey
Touche! I slay
Today we play;
Triumphant data-hunt essay:
A holiday.

Another Victim

Another Victim

I am not the terrorist;

I condone not this war and others;

I voted not for our pretender president;

I can change not these events.

I protest until my breath disintegrates.

I support full my country;

I decry its sins;

I mourn the casualties.

I grieve my impotence because

I am the terrorized.

221A

Falling Pages

Wow!

Mom, you sustain me.

I withdraw hope from your reservoir.

You energize me.

As my life teacher,

You share your financial wizardry

In our strategic planning sessions.

You share your soul searches by

Confiding in me and sharing secrets.

We comfort each other.

You defend my dignity as

John’s greatest promoter.

You lead me staunchly down time’s hazy corridor.

Wow!

6/23/00