I used to diet.
Wrote down every crumb I put into my mouth.
Drank twelve glasses of water a day.
Wrote them down too.
Exercised an hour a day at Curves.
Got buff.
Found muscles I did not know I had.
Looked like a coach in my legs.
Barely remember any of that now.
As I reach for my chips and dip
after sucking down three Hershey bars
and drinking two liters of cream soda.
Happier now
fluffier too
On the way to the New Jersey Shore,
make a stop there if you never have before.
Travel eastward along U. S. Route 30,
you will find this place that will be easy to see.
It's located in the town of Hammonton, New Jersey.
In the morning, you will never have fluffier pancakes.
In the evening, they have tender and juicy steaks.
There are very few places that are finer.
Stop and check out the Silver Coin Diner.
My dog is bigger than your dog.
Okay.
My cat is prettier than your cat.
That’s true.
My chickens are fluffier than your chickens.
I don’t have any chickens.
If you did have chickens they would be scrawny and ugly.
Probably.
My pencils are sharper than your pencils.
I do not use pencils.
My house is pinker than your house.
I know that’s right.
My sun is hotter than your sun.
I am smirking now, not knowing where to go with it.
The baby got killed
As the ancestors were sinner
There should be justification for that
Is it the craft, dear sophisticated seniors?
Justification to find the metaphor, nicer, fluffier words
To show a black people dying, to show sexual orientation
Enough people are not dying in Palestine?
Enough death is not enough there?
We are justifying the privilege
Holding the privilege
Is it poetry, dear sophisticated seniors?
Have mercy
Have compassion
And if it is impossible, have silence
It is better than your burdened talk
Better leave or let leave.
For once, let the lip be mine.
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Russia Russia, ever
fluffier things
about Russia Russia
including no excuse
how Trump
rushes after those
who oppose him
so brusquely
on Rosh Hashanah.