Watermelon (for Richard Brautigan)

Sweet beefcake ballistics...

someone pull the file...

be careful out there...you never know...

could be a brave new world

could be a dark age

it all depends on how you look at it:

could be the start of something big...

could be we wasted our lives...

could be Plato's cave we're in...

could be a figment of our imagination...

could be just our luck...

could be a communist plot...

could be the rapture...

could be the Great Awakening...

could be the end times...

could be the new Golden Age...

could be we think too much...

I always wanted to end a poem

with the word mayonnaise.