Cough It Up, You Assholes
“Just tryin’ to eat, folks,
and get a one-way bus pass.
I used to get on the train and say,
‘Can anybody help the homeless?”
Now I say,
‘Can anyone help a promising artist?’
A color-enhanced work of art,
in a hang-able, frame-able format.
Hard to believe.
For just one dollar, or two.
There’s a book of poems, and a book of prose
for a larger donation, like ten or five dollars.
But again, you can always
buy a single poem
for a dollar.”
and get a one-way bus pass.
I used to get on the train and say,
‘Can anybody help the homeless?”
Now I say,
‘Can anyone help a promising artist?’
A color-enhanced work of art,
in a hang-able, frame-able format.
Hard to believe.
For just one dollar, or two.
There’s a book of poems, and a book of prose
for a larger donation, like ten or five dollars.
But again, you can always
buy a single poem
for a dollar.”
Dan Boucher is a small DNA molecule within a cell that is physically separated from a chromosomal DNA and can replicate independently. He tweets @descripticon.