Poem of the Week! "Wishes"

When the dance floor is in my living room,

The hottest shorty in the club is the 

Fat bitch

Pop-lockin, booty shakin, and signing the lyrics to the goddamn song,

All at the same time. 

When the open mic is in my living room,

Two dissonant chords on an out of tune guitar

Sound like Heaven

And Fire

And not at all like a sick cat

Dying, cumming and giving birth 

All at the same time.

And when Prom Night is in my living room

I'm not corseted into a slinky black dress

Giving hand gun hand jobs to the quarterback

Fuck That!

I wear a red tuxedo

White carnation

And have the captain of the color guard on my arm. 

But screw the prom!

Screw the dance floor!

And screw the open mic!

They are not big enough, 

For my living room

Because my living room

Is a wondrous place

With a couch that has only seen kisses.

Symphonies play on kazoos.

Stars shine in the daylight,

and Spacemen plant flowers on the moon

The bookshelves overflow with words

Reverberating off the walls in

Singing syncopation,

Or maybe just singing

Andy Warhol on the walls

Having tea with Dali 

On an oriental carpet 

Made of Unicorns

And when the WORLD is in my living room, 

The only oil in our oceans

Will sleep safely in the

Earth at the bottom.

We won't need it;

We'll have jet packs.

People in rainbow shirts will get married more often

Than people in red shirts die on

Star Trek!

When the world is in my living room

We won't judge each other by the

Colors on our skin because

Our skin will be colored

In poster paint and glitter pens

Proclaiming messages

Of peace

and Peace will be preached

By all the world's religions

The only wars fought will be

Between fourth graders

on the playground

With packs of playing cards

And everyone will have

Their own theme music

YES!

When the world is in my living room

There will be no more Republicans

And no more Libritarians

And no more Democrats

Because each individual will govern

Him or herself with kindness

Compassion, generosity.

Not caring for the sick and the needy

Because there will be no sick

And no needy

When the world is in my living room.

But Screw my living room.

It's time to bring my living room

To the world.