a Labor Day poem
by Bill Costley
auf B.B.
All of you have seen me walk behind;
none of you will see me walk before
Der Elef@nt as it stupidly scheisses
fouling the Cirkus' Parade; quickly, I
shovel-up its scheiss before comrades
slip & slide & smirk like silly clowns.
My work is just as useful as yours is
& so I proudly bear my worker-title
on my uniform-back: Der Scheissm@n.
Comrade, consider the Cirkus? pitiful
state if I did not do my work so well:
Der Elef@nt is not the only scheisser.
Bill Costley serves on the Steering Committee of the San Francisco chapter of the National Writers Union. Volume Two of his epic-in-progress The CHENI@D appears here on The New Verse News.