jo�

Life Is Short

If there were
anything
you could do

I'd let ya know

but
guess what

you can't call me

when you want

you can't come over


when your time is free

your constraints

are affecting me

and

that's

not how
it
should be

ONE MONTH'S CELL BILL- FRICK

jo©

we

(I use that term loosely)

had a bed

that cost

as much
as
a sub-compact

I hope
you enjoy

looking at the dent

in
the

beautiful birch finish

every night
as you
retire

you made it

remember

how you
flung the cordless
into it

when
i found out

about
your
369$
phone bill

to

that
straight chick?

The Morning Crowd

jo©

I am
untrammeled
unlike
all my
would be
suitors

they all
all
ignore
their
constraints
without
restraint

women

do you know
that at 7 am
when
I am driving
to give my sick mother breakfast
your man is
falling out
of his pickup
to look at me

not one
not two
just about
every one
the garbage man
the vitamin water man
the plumber
the potato chip man
a carpenter
and two cable guys

I'm not vain
I guess that's just
the way men are

A
blue CRV
and
shoulder length hair
does that

Men

Why
does
everyone
want one
?

Joe's Cafe

jo©
I
sit unobserved
on a porch here

Everyone
in our town
passes by
from the local judges
on down

Every night
I observe
and hear things
that people
don't realize
they're divulging
to me

I hear them all