< all day at the dump >
ray heinrich
Loose and crazy these female dinosaurs
busy buttering hunk to hunk
loose only for a piece of rump
and give me some toast
and let me watch the april sun
touch off flowers like dynamite
like fireflies on nuclear power cycles
honest-to-god real lightning and thunder bugs
bumblebees big as mountains but turning on dimes
stay out of their way
who gave me this day?
it's plain
it's gray
it's got nothing to say
it jerked my pay
from it's monkey sleigh
and shipped me live
on federal express
and now i'm new jersey
when i should have been new york
when i should have been a nice house
and a pretty garden
and not this beat-up cardboard box with a wet bottom
but at least my top's dry
begging
to be set on fire.
