Wednesday, January 7, 2009

simile (some poems write themselves)

today i got a text message
from my friend kevin that said "driving
is like ice skating
with your car"

i read this and smiled
thinking of my sister's '94 saturn
in a sequined skirt, trailing figure eights
on a frosted field
of flattened wheat

i had been eating
children's cereal
from a yellow box, from a blue bowl

a jovial mariner
with a high-gloss mustache and epaulets
saluted from the neon cardboard

"making out" i replied
"is doggie paddling with your lips"

crunch-a-tize me, cap'n
mouthfuls of wet fur and chlorine

"truth!" kevin said,
adding, as an afterthought,
"math
is like sex
in the universe"

2 comments:

[square] said...

hahah yess! True life: im in a poem!

pawnshoppe said...

reminds me of skoy. u'd recall his comments better than i, i'm afraid.

also Cap'nCrunch = best cereal.


ps - we should come up with meanings for these word verification comment things. right now i have to type "spolon" = a special colon?