VII

In the year of a bad rash
from a bee sting on my shin
splotched with an unctuous spot
that produces something so close

to feta cheese and then a flash-
bulb goes off. What a wonderful
picture of the president in a yellow
dominatrix costume Derek has drawn
a boiled egg with Tabasco sauce

one’s just not good enough
a boiled egg with Tabasco sauce

I is an upturned H. Everything is
an open ended bracket on
both sides of I, and it was Jesus!

                                                  11 August 2003