Celebrating 15 Years
By AVRAM KLINE
thday tadashi was driving thcorolla,
four menonites showed up with signs
that said contemporary opinion re
our use of color is mixed, come try
thmeatloaf & in this anabab booth
ye may unto all preach thgospel & eat
this meatloaf among among among,
& tadashi sat in thbooth & admired
thbonneted waitress who said to him
huldrych never saw a beachball
as ye never saw my buggy, now as
snow ye come to me, court me
in my rummy rummy home & bundle
me in quilt as wick goes & mate with me
& bundle me, & tadashi came upon th
pulpit as pastor elm was carrying on re
standing naked before his captors, saying
i come from elms along the cuyahoga,
areola crinkling onthtongue, let us
irrigate, let us make supple this bullock
& all his flesh with his head & his legs
& his inwards & his dung, & burnhimon
the wood, & horace sitting beside
tadashi sitting beside young men beside
men declared amen yah women yah!
& elm went on re thmountain zebra thplains
zebra quagga quagga, zevra ye wild ass,
he warned, we’ll lose our coats in wildfire!
ye hear for skins rattle? & reba sitting among
young women among women stood & from
her throat came huldrych zwingli did ablute!
tadashi put thjug of rootbeer inthtrunk
Avram Kline lives in Brooklyn and teaches at a public high school in Manhattan. He co-curates Readings at Milk & Roses, a monthly poetry event in Greenpoint.
