"Soda Poppies"

"Soda Poppies"

A Cool Soda Jerk.

I'm a sucker for soda poppies.

Really just a stoned soldier.

I came from the soda shop.

Not the local Stop N' Shop.

"Walked Around The Clock".

"Hop Around A Rock".

Rocked Around The Block.

Happy Poppies.

Happy Pappy.

By My Poppy Louis       

The Culinary Dictator

"The Culinary Dictator"

I know what you're up to.

You worked with the culinary cuisine and pastry scene at the C.I.A.

Making secret formulas at your own convenience.

Ignoring all norms and standards set forth by F.D.A. and the F.D.I.C.

You were an agent for The Federal Reserve Bank.

A big shot at The R.N.C. and The D.N.C.

Cooking to your liking at the White House's catered banquets. 

You put half the White House staff on permanent leave.

Threatening to impeach the President for having an enlarged tush.

Cleaning toilets in the executive washrooms.

You worked for many Kings and Princes of Far Eastern Empires.

A perpetrator of The Great Pillow Fights in San Francisco.

Confident of the Marcos' family and a comrade to Fidel Castro.

You burned draft cards in the 60's and was labeled subversive in the 50's.

Your checkered past is the present's norm.

Mickey Walsh, you know you are a mensch.   

By Jon Billet - 03.10.14.       

Another word for a really great

politician is a "tush".

Ibid pg.58 

Politicians are great at exaggerating 

the truth on all sides of the aisles.

Ibid. pg.17       

 

Oy Gevalt

"Oy Gevalt"

I mean oy vesh mire.

Change was falling from holes in my pockets.

After that, it started pouring out of the holes in my pants.

Then I started crapping loose change.

Who am I?

Monty Hall?

The former host of the t.v. show, "Let's Make A Deal"?

Am I one of the lucky ones in "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire"?

I'm not rich!

You are!

O.K. so I'm lucky.

Money grows on trees and in banks.

At least the interest.

But who's not interested in money?

I, for one, am very interested.

You see, I'm on Wall Street.

Quoting the values.

Of the latest heartthrobs of our society.

By Jon Billet - 03.09.14.       

Eating The Hershey Bars On Mars

"Eating The Hershey Bars On Mars"

If she could hear me, what would she reply?

She's an enigma with an enema.

Tomorrow's fate is a yesterday's date in mirrored visions of today.

The future, present, and past never last long.

Burning headlines bring futures in tomorrow's newspaper.

The winter has no spring.

No birds sing or wing.

I only dreamed that I was awake.

Dancing colors on my walls bring new waterfalls.

The floor has no door.

He's at his idiot's wits end.

In a rush to go nowhere but to hell.

A sleep deprived example of the human race.

Dead in outer space.

Never to reach heaven.

Only to survive his long drive back to his home.

From the day's labor.

By Jonathan Billet - 02.08.14       

A Dudette

"A Dudette"

Dudette you are one of the world's dancers.

Always spreading joy and happiness.

Like the flowers in your bag.

You are a third sister to me.

A pollinating bee.

The world fights with arms and hammers.

Yet you send it your soul's love.

My heart skips to its beats.

Dreaming of you in silk sheets.

I am only a feather.

We always survived the world's cruel weather.

The time I spent with you lasting never.

Forever and together.

I love you best and better.

By Jonathan Billet