Saturday, November 30, 2019

Bucky Badger and Goldy Gopher

Cordovan leather,
dark midnight sun,
candy from China with donkey-flavored gelatin.
What do we want to do
with our last day together?
Fine to watch beloved relatives watching Goldy Gopher
play Bucky Badger.
Pantless Bucky.
Goldy always wears pants
(or does he?). Sitting with my loud nineteen-year-old nephew.
But they don’t sell beer at Badger stadium
(a Wisconsin rule
part of the reason Bucky doesn’t wear pants.
And Goldy does?). They did throw one kid out
for taunting someone in Bucky’s hood.
Gophers are not made of prunes,
and neither are badgers: they’re both made of pickles—
classic French cornichons.
Cordovan leather,
dark midnight sun,
candy from China with donkey-flavored gelatin.