Poet as Prophet
Looking back on it now
Mike Meyers was a prophet.
Anyone remotely familiar with
any city’s poetry scene can watch
1993’s So I Married an Axe Murderer
or even just listen to the soundtrack
and know that, when the drummer hits
the downbeat, the horn player riffs and ‘poet’
Charlie MacKenzie punches out inane syllables
reliant on the competence of a smooth jazz trio,
the standard for bad recital was set. And ever
since then, we’ve had nothing to worry about
since we know now what to avoid.
The Dork Myth
I wish I could tell you
I was such a dork in high school,
that fraternity of instant street cred.
But that’s not how it was.
I had a good car, the cute girlfriend
the right friendships and social hook-ups,
the kickass skateboard, bike and job
not because my parents handed it to me
but because I was able to identify the one thing
that could made me cool, go get it
and come back with the girl
who’d tear at my Ratt concert tee
in a bedroom after school.
So the question that really persists,
what really won’t stop haunting me
is what the hell happened to me?
Where did I go so wrong
that I settle for women with rough hands
who work in gas stations
and cars that are just… cars?
I may not have been a dork in high school
but it caught up to me
because I started caring less about my clothes and posture,
and more about the quality of my thoughts and friendships.
And that girl at the gas station with the rough hands,
she’ll go down on me in the backseat of an average car
on a rainy night in a dark part of a rich neighborhood
where the residents are too busy staying on top of earnings reports
to wrap themselves around a cute stranger
the way it used to be.
Miss Daisy
Rain droplets fall on the windshield
as I stand by in the parking lot.
Inside room 308 of the Goodnight Inn,
Rico is sticking it to Miss Daisy, a pretty little hood-rat
who swung onto his lap at the right moment on the right night
fifteen minutes before closing at the gentleman’s club
the wad in his pocket thick with a week’s pay.
I was an idiot.
I didn’t bring money into the club,
and word soon spread thru the G-string ranks
of the moneyless douchebag in the front row
watching naked kooch swing on the skewer pole.
But the girls smelled Rico
and Miss Daisy was fastest on the draw
licking her right index finger and running it over his junk.
She won the $300 ride to the local motel
and the promise of a ride later on
forty miles back into the Valley.
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