Now’s the time for fancy pants not
poopy pants
the manner in which you’re
trousered remains undetermined
whether you’ve ever placed a teacup
in the grass
and promised to retrieve it on your
way back
from the market presumably super in
nature
presumably with comestibles in a
sack
unanswered as well have I ever followed
you home
have I ever poured syrup on your
stomach
have I ever hit you with an
automobile
these are things we should attempt
to find out
we could say the word butterfly out
loud
we could put caterpillars in our
mouths
and move to France but we’ve just
met
so maybe not yet what’s the most
fireflies you have eaten in one
sitting
have you ever conspired and if so
with whom
and to what end would you stand on
the cow
while I climb down below to take a
photograph
I’d like to introduce you to my
lucky bedspread
I don’t know what’s so lucky about
it
I have never woken to see a chimney
sweep
watching me from the fire escape is
one possible example
another is that of all the eels
that have swum
in the bathtub with me none has
been electric
speaking of eels I too would like
to catch some for dinner
but where are we going to get a
horse head
without the rest of the horse
attached and standing up behind it?