three poems written in combined ten minutes over three days while watching television & eating ice cream

A HEALTHY BOVINE

 

Removing a nail from your forehead is

No easier than painting twenty thousand

Otter figurines

Orange

But nail removal's always

More rewarding which is why

We've committed to un-nailing

Only

American foreheads

Assuming

You have proper insurance

Documentation and access to
A nail gun

Three raw onions

And fifteen

Lightly rusted tractors

I FEEL BAD ABOUT DRINKING EVER NOW

 

This diagram is not an example

Of your elbow

Or even fifteen Ryobi power drills

Poking tiny holes in my

Tiny sternum

But while ten tons of whiskey

Drain into a barrel

From my perforated stomach

We always make

A textbook origami crane to

Replace the various brains

You jarred

& brought to Saturday Market

March 3^rd, 1987

SOMETIMES AMERICA'S GOT TALENT EATS YOUR FACE CHILDISHLY & WITH PREJUDICE

I can digest small pebbles in my hand

And survive

On only hair & fingernails

For five years

My Vegas show will feature

A small lighted terrarium

My face

And five million watt LED backlights

Donations

To my 501(c)3 nonprofit

Are encouraged