Poetry
Swiss Kriss for President
An unpaid pitchman, I even sent Kriss to Eisenhower. “Do it the Satchmo way and you’ll feel 10 years old.”
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Swiss Kriss Diet
I’m a high-strutting yo-yo diet, the gut and down every year or so. But people fixate on my weight, like I got cancer. No, I got Swiss Kriss.
St. James Infirmary
Two Freds, one the composer the other the tromboner. Got to have both or this hit would need a church organ donor.
The First Few A’s in St. James Infirmary
That song’s first “A” didn’t show up, must’ve been sick. That “A” didn’t show up, could’ve been sick. Or maybe missed the call ’bout the gig between my lips.
What a Wonderful World
The melody sounded like twinkle twinkle’s great uncle oompah loompah: “I see trees of green . . .” Label wasn’t seeing the same green cause they only offered me 5 c-notes.
Film Studies
I am pushing this bicycle twined with ribbons & flags & enormous bells through the elaborate marble lobby to the bar.
What an embarrassment, what kind of grace
Thanking the tall maple over on Sea Street, it was or it wasn’t me hearing waves crash in the high branches.
Donald Trump’s Toe Tag
Donald Trump's toe tag will be the most glorious toe tag. It will have class like you've never seen before.
The Foreigners
They came from a shtetl they swore didn’t deserve a name. The youngest kept finding stray stones in their pockets.
