Johns [by Jennifer L. Knox]

John Cafferty is not John Fogerty
and an ass is not a vagina.

The lawyer said so.  O!
the slight, subtle distinctions

between perfume and a urinal cake.
Just because something works

doesn’t mean everything worked
out.  Hit and run’s not hit and run

and back up, forward, back up, forward
and run over some more. “Friends”

don’t do that to “friends,” friend (please
be friendly and reply if you agree).

We don’t have to get up, we get to
get up, every day and decide how easy

the listening will be: jock rock
(“Tough All Over”) versus vet rock

(“Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”),
Xanax versus Ativan, etc.

[[from Drunk by Noon by Jennifer L. Knox, Bloof Books, 2007. Bloof is edited by the peerless Shanna Compton]. 

Comments

[lally]

bam!