Anvil Cocktails for All
Anvil Cocktails for All
by Pete Leki
(click to hear the poem read by the author)
It's Summer in the City
And the crickets sing at night
The jets
roar in the wispy clouds
But things just don't seem right…
without
some…
Anvil whining down the block
Just as we sit down for dinner
Whoever got
that Anvil contract
Sure turned out a winner
We get Anvil on our salsa
All up in our posole
Anvil on our
pollo
Quesadillas, guacamole
Anvil on the kiddies
On Darwin, Zach and Ella
Anvil on the
popsicles
And on that homeless fella
Anvil sprayed on grannies
And on the pregnant ladies
On birds and dogs
and dragonflies
On daddies pushing babies
Anvil at the cafes
On your pesto and risotta
Anvil in your fine
Merlot
And in your mineral water
"Don't worry. It won't hurt you."
The Public Health guys say
"And if
you do get cancer
That will be years away
You can't blame it on the Anvil
Not with the toxic air
You're breathing
in this City
There's already poison there:
Lead, asbestos, ozone,
Diesel fumes and soot
Mercury and arsenic
Is
it so bad to put
A little bit on Anvil
Into the toxic bile?
At least we're doing
something
To try to stop West Nile.
We need to show we're active
Like going off to war
Even tho the
enemy
Is as toxic as the cure."
So bring it on, don't fear it.
Spray all over me,
I'm sure that it is
harmless
Like Raid and DDT.
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