Your Portion
Mary Winters
Sure-fire recipe for either laughter or tears --
sadism, of course; what is trapped, specifically:
Sad, those bears and goats at the “animal farm,”
straining for dog biscuits offered by children
Less sad: rich real estate queen tax evader
checking into prison for bed-making lessons
Funny as all get-out: new, skinny employee
trapped in a corner by mammoth, irate customer...
That was worth its weight in glee, oh, yes, and
you laughed when you saw it, ugly new wrinkles
creasing forever at the corners of your eyes,
you trapped only by that universal quid pro quo.
