Here's one more reference to Egypt
and I'll move up to Greece and Rome.
[FLIPPING PAGES]
This one is called, "Surviving the Hurricane"
"When the neighbor's outhouse went by and landed upside down
on my property unoccupied I laughed, and yelled, it's mine.
[LAUGHTER]
But what's so funny?
The TV says that many, many will get blown away
by the hurricanes uproarious humors.
And now the horizontal rain comes through my wall.
The wallpaper hues and cries and runs down the floor as pulp,
as the windows go out with the wind.
And the wind picks off the roof two shingles at a time,
and there is no difference inside or out.
Leaning against the wall or the wind
is the same, this wet, is that wet.
There is no protection anywhere except, I
go stand in the upside down outhouse with the crapper
over my stinking head.
Once it has dripped dry of its stormborn shit
and be the dry mummy of its sarcophagus
under the whole hurricane of the universe.
That's what's so funny.
Egypt."
[LAUGHTER]
[APPLAUSE]