Domestic Bliss

If I am as cute as a button

why have you spent the past hour

hunting for the one that rolled down your sleeve

onto the aluminum siding bus

carrying rows of disillusioned tourists

toward the chimney heart of our once famous city

Didn't you say that you didn't like that coat

that the buttons were too big for someone

possessing your delicate bone structure

Why isn't there more meat on this chicken

It's as if the damned thing began starving itself

once it knew what the future had in store for it

Is this what they mean by "organic"

I agree. We don't need to go on

fighting like this. We could learn

another way to fight, one that wouldn t

expend so many baccalaureates of bituminous energy

Perhaps a nap from which we would wake up

refreshed as fish dropped back into a forest pond

Okay, platinum mousetrap of a higher celestial order

one of us would whisper to the other

you get on your side of the rubber volcano

and I'll get on mine. But before you do

would you mind mending my hind paws

I need to get that sand back into my open veins