The Empyrean

13

<
         (aching)
     Now, a word from our sponsors:

   The salad bar is where
   they lettuce drink our drinks.
   To Matt O'Grady it seems
   we're all getting too drunk.
   I took my cue although
   it was quite cumbersome--a pickle
   of a fix, if you please.
   Everything's half off!
   Put on ten more pounds of fat.
   Run around the block.
   Get cramps around your belly.
   I'm getting too old for this.
   Officers carry cruel
   batons about their shoulders.
   I'm too young to die
   old enough to know better.
   Forty carrot gold pieces
   make you round around your pants
   pockets should never be holy
   smoke should never be ignored.
It's all you can eat and MORE!

   Waiter!  Check Please!
(her brain checked out a while back)

© 2002 by daniel ml. All rights reserved.

>