White Elephant
Big, white, fat and ugly elephant
why are you big, so big that I need
an Einsteinian singularity
to bend light waves around your
milky way body as you devour galaxies
like a rakshasa from Ramayana.
O pearly white elephant,
why grow fat on sugarcane sticks?
Try a bagfull or two of bullshit.
Shitfull of bullshit.
Your fat drips between the stickiness
of my naturally flavored yellow popcorn.
between the darkness of the theater.
between satin sheets,
between a thousand weaves of Egyptian cotton
pillow as I lay my eyes to sleep,
Just to find my blanketless body
through a bottle of shiraz
smeared between a platter of Indian naan
and cashew chicken and served finally
between the wafer-almond sheets of a
Bosnian baklava
you finally leave like the taste of an
uninformed and unsatisfied
pistachio flavored tutti gelati,
on the steps of a blues evening,
leading away from Miller Ave
onto Colorado Blvd
disppareaing between a thousand and one
pedestrian shoes.