for Aaron Fogel
Politically-correct
personal computers
point and click.
President Clinton
(codename Peacock)
can’t protect
crack pushing
Communist Party
cops pursuing
a care package
of peasant consciousness
in a car park.
Poverty’s a crime,
and capital punishment
par for the course,
in this penal code.
A plausible cliffhanger
can’t cure the paralyzed,
prevent cancer,
or prepare California
for Perry Como,
that peerless crooner.
Pitcher and catcher confer.
O cornet player, play
“Pomp and Circumstance”
please, in the partly cloudy
cool Pacific.
(David Lehman)
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