Garbage Brains

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Garbage Brains

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Garbage Brains must hurry
and pack his newspaper clippings.

the Wallpapering has already commenced.

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asked to dance with one leg out,
or balance or bounce a ball bat

to cheer the cheerless charges…
but no.

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he is tiptoeing past the women’s arson ward,
(for burned arsonists—a lot of them lately),

and, disguised as dirty laundry,
chutes down the provided slide

out whappity flap
into a waiting pedicab.

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____________________—grimes  9/87; 9/09