Doctor Feel-Good
Yusef Komunyakaa He's a Laughing Buddha
With his head thrown back,
Body shaking like the Jesus
Christ in Playboy years ago.
If you don't sing with the cuckoo clock,
He brings in the plastic nose,
The squirt gun of red dye,
Stacks of funnybooks, & the rubber chicken. The fantasy videos are for hardcore
Grumpiness & un-American
Grief. First he tickles
The soles Of your feet Before prescribing Prozac.
He can't imagine boredom,
& says only a pretty smile
Assures margins of profit.
Ontario Review #49 | 
