Red-faced, seated after the audition...

I made a list of things to say....

I made this list in my head of things
I wanted to say to those in power, I thought
you are not listening, this was, three

or more years back, in 2001, or so.
If I could count the things that happened
since: letter from downstairs tenant,

visiting publisher condemnations or
a trip to the Parliament buildings and
then a further condemnation. How many

trips to the Musicals or Theatre? For me
the library is enough. Oh well, you`ll feel
better if you have a job, could be true!

But still the list, the subway bombings,
the rude stares, the mice, the sleepy eye
and still the lists, listings. Why startle my

wife, a mouse, the emails, are they of the
concilliatory kind? Grizzly Man was the best
movie of the year. It is about something. So.

I have nothing, it is not that, it is simply
the little chicken suit, flung high into the
tree, we are wondering: How did this get here?
Who will take it down?