ENOUGH FREE JAZZ

I have been in love several times
and I have had exactly one seizure
and I think it is good
to eat french fries
with lots of salt
and a cold glass of Fanta
even at eight fifteen in the morning
you needn’t worry about the surfeit
of french fry varieties
because they are all excellent
shoestring
tater tot
cheese fries
crinkle cut
waffle
you cannot go wrong
although a girl should never attend dinner
with her father unless she has a T-shirt
that says Just a Father

and a Daughter Without a History
of Opioid Use in block letters
such as one would find
in an early printing press
not that I go to special collections
to pore over medieval tomes
I’m not brainy
and I’m certainly not poor
au contraire
my favorite part
of Vegas was always
Paris

cover photo by mindijean on flickr