Here's another prose poem.
I sometimes introduce this as my one confessional poem.
Although maybe now that I have that Prague poem,
there are two.
It's called, "My Mother and Steven Seagal
Share the Same Birthday."
"And yet a PAC commercial would never wake my mother
from an amnesic fog.
My mother would never find herself
in the living room of a farmhouse watching
a candidate for the US Senate making teleprompter
promises, each promise punctuated with the tag phrase,
you can take that to the bank.
And my mother would never suddenly remember
that this candidate had years ago orchestrated a hit on her,
had nearly killed her, had probably
thought he had killed her.
And my mother's eyes would never narrow.
And she would not then say, she would never say,
I'll take you to the bank, Senator, the blood bank."
[CHUCKLING]