I feel pain
a yak says
when I stick a backgammon set
in my eye
or Celine Dion
I should clarify
the yak says
grammar is a rich ape that gets
someone else to swing from the trees
while it slumps in a deckchair
text messaging
those who wait
O rich ape
the yak says
sometimes I get Celine Dion
in my eye
and she insists on singing
though I am in pain
and the police
are chasing me
In every ending
there is a new beginning
yadda yadda yadda
my mother always said
though I never listened too carefully
because after all
we were yaks and
I had limited expectations
Gary Barwin's books include the recent novel, Nothing the Same, Everything Haunted: The Ballad of Motl the Cowboy and the poetry collection Bird Arsonist (with Tom Prime). He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.
