Dancing with the Taxman

Hold and Pull
Originally uploaded by kafkas_undies.

Waking
Up
and down
and inverted-like
Making photocopies at fifteen cents
A piece
and crossing things
Off the list quicker than
A sponge drinks
Chicken bacteria
and junior's accidents.

Give me a refund and I'll give you
A recitation,
A Hamlet soliloquy of your choice.
I'll send a picture,
one photocopied
And folded in half, twice.
Drawing with highlighter
Aiming for a citrus grove
but growing
a weed instead
Bittersweet vine
An invasive.

Propagate it
or think of something other,
Either way I could use some juice
And the leaves,
They're turning yellow.
Good thing Taxman understands.
He's seen it all before
And reaching for ice cubes
Is a familiar device,
An adding machine
with battery dead
And glass
Empty.
Empty and clean.