By J.J. Tindall
PROSPECTUS: MY JIMMY JOHN’S ON BAGHDAD’S MAGNIFICENT MILE
I’m fired
Up!
I can’t wait For Iraq
To be safe For Democracy!
Fellas: make no
Small plans!
I’m openin’ me
Up a Jimmy John’s
On Baghdad’s first
Magnificent Mile!
It’s my Brooklyn
Bridge, my Aswan
Damn, my Bratsk
Station!
Help me bring
Freedom to the
People! Let’s
Get in there
And start setting up
Those Dan Burnham
Six corner strip-mall deals
And get the neighborhoods
All mapped out
Before Communist China
Figures it
Out and wants
In! You guys: these people
Are going
To have to
Eat! And, no matter what you’ve heard,
They LOVE
Ham! I’m partial to the
J.J. Gargantuan,
Myself,
But that’s beside
The point.
Imagine a run
On Sorry
Charlie’s! Fellas: ENOUGH
With the Sentimental,
Post-Modern, Byronic
Ennui!
LET US BUILD! LET US
BRING FREEDOM
TO THESE POOR, BEREFT
MISGUIDED
HEATHENS! We’ll put one
Right by where the old
Saddam statue
Was! Perfect
Symbolism!
Send me money NOW!
There’s no better
Time to
Save!
–
For my great friend & teacher, Kevin Hogan.
–
J. J. Tindall is the Beachwood’s poet-in-residence. He can reached at jjtindall@yahoo.com. Chicagoetry is an exclusive Beachwood collection-in-progress.
Posted on August 10, 2007