"Wrong Channel" Found Poem

This is America

Bibles

Reader's Digest

Impala

Espresso

Florida Room

Green Card

Beads of sweat

Good impression

Healthier look

Medical records

Interpreter

No bueno

TB

TV

Make sure it works

You need to buy one

This is America

Attaining the American dream:

TV--yes

TB--no

A silly poem to share

Square Foot

It takes on the shape of my shoe now,

smashed black and blue,

like Oe’s The Changling.

Kojito offends a Yakuza boss

but instead of killing Kojito,

setting his feet in concrete,

the Yakuza attack him

every three years

smashing Kojito’s left foot.

By the third attack,

the foot is so disfigured,

it won’t fit into a regular shoe.

Kojito claims gout.

Still hopeful, I wear blue Velcro,

toes jammed together

moving safely not toward gout but a heal.