poor imitation of Kenneth Koch's 'The Boiling Water'

A funny moment for the soap

Is when it slips in the shower or

When your bag's searched

As in shoplifting the soap

Or hijacking the soap

The soap then an object of desire
A slippery moment

Can be caused by soap insofar as the water's nearby and plentiful

The soap slippery on a nude body

Is more pleasing if the body is a body

Your body's attracted to

The soap is more pleasing when

In the shower

The soap partners with your

Partner's genitals

Because clean genitals may play a role

In the most slippery moments

But a funny moment for the brain is when

Drunkenly

It calculates the limits of soap

As when grease accumulates on your open hands

Or when a broken dish soils the carpet

A small moment for a human

Is a when a human knows

Finally

It is an it

As when I am a you are becomes

I am an I am

It is more pleasing for a human

To be human

Than for soap to be soap

Because soap was always soap

And this cannot be said of a human

It is more pleasing also

For a human to use the soap which is provided it

As when a human hopes to attract

Another human

Or when

Having attracted a human

A human desires a slippery moment

A strange moment for an orange

Is when its orange-ness becomes

Abstracted from its rind

Or when the pleasantness of its pulp

Is obscured by the stickiness of its juice

A funny moment for a human

Is when it pretends to orange-ness

As when its pulp and juice is spilled upon

A small square of concrete

The pleasantness of fruits is suspect

As in 'fruits of labor'

Or 'fruit of my loins'

If it is fair to say that fruit is dead

Then let us say it

And save for a while many pleasant moments