Poems 1960-2010

RAINY-DAY TAXIS

I

“Jesus what a
waste.
Senior year I
translate
Ovid from French
to English.

Spelled:
a-v-i-d.
Where’s it get
you when
you got to dig
ditches?"

II

“How I see it
is this:
a hot-air mass
meets a cold
front & wham:
rain.

Chinese bomb hits
a blast
from Canada &
there
you are.  All I
know:
it’s goddamn wet."