Saturday, February 18, 2017

Villanelle: Well, Well, Well

Sitting with my feet in the sun
on a quilt on an antique dining room chair.
That settles it!—I’m the feet poet.

I’m the feet poet, don’t I know it!
The sunshine warms my tootsies bare.
Got rows to hoe and I’m gonna hoe it!

Everyone knows I’m the feet poet
and allows I own a pretty pair.
Excuse me, don’t mind it I show it!

But will the Trump regime allow it,
these toes-y rows on which I stare?
Fuck you, Trump, I’m the feet poet!

Sometimes it gets where you have to show it,
set your toes on the thoroughfare,
feet in the street and battle for it.

Hiya, Pinkie! Wanna sew it?
They called me Easy Money there.
Got rows to hoe and I’m gonna hoe it.
Go down, old Hannah, I’m the feet poet!