Stand-up Poetry

By Gosh. By Gee. By Whiz.

And the Cambridge Women

dispense Pez candys.

Only on the Fourth of July

as they sit circling the yard.

I strictly believe in the belief

that we are all human and all of us

are humane, or so I once thought

in my upper-class neighborhood as a child.

And boy was I surprised to find that the brain

did not all think the same. And some was a duzzie.

Never trust the inherent logic that you assume

in another man. But the Cambridge Ladies and the fireworks

right after 9:00 and the cameras faceless –

where free will is preempted by birth.

Just sayin.