Sonnet: Long Drives in the Country
Carved from the trunk of a tree, Carolee often wondered about
the rainwater that just might, one day, polish rocks. Just causes
still worth launching air strikes for appeared on every hand. Not
yet exploded, Iraqi schoolchildren practiced death by hanging
just like Saddam Hussein, while residents of Pasadena made
do without guacamole for a while. "Obese people like chewing,"
someone said. "We'll have to break them of that." Meanwhile, he
made himself more and more indispensable to the parish priest.
Others spent their days down there hanging around with some
of those malinchistas, while we took long drives in the campo.
That very same week, she began crawling to the law, begging
for mercy even before any charges against her had been lodged.
Abu Dhabi, needless to say, seemed more and more attractive to
all of us who had the good sense to keep our bags always packed.
Hal
Halvard Johnson
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