Once I slammed an entire schoolbus of children

and they thanked me for it.

Several wild dogs

 

felt very indebted to the ASPCA for abducting their brethren.

 

 

We drank pure olive oil,

you are extra virgin, you thanked us and drank the oil,

you take your place in the cage and whine for water.

 

I am briefly reminded that you can see the continents' lights at night

 

from space and that a golfball is somewhere

orbiting a moon.

 

You slam windows and single mothers.

I am somewhere breakfasting on fresh oysters and bolts and

large, stringless kites.

He says sailing across the ocean was easy,

 

it was the coming home and dealing with prime-time television that was difficult.

 

I slam the telephone with ads from a telemarketer and a man with a fake

Russian accent begs me to lend him two thousand dollars

 

so he can unlock an offshore account, maybe

rent a new yacht.

 

We're partners he says.

We'll slam the Mediterranean by Friday, just have the money

by Tuesday.