Majestic Paradox

STEAK FAT AND BUBBLE GUM

sometimes working

on his Hudson Hornet’s

straight eight cylinders

surrounded by

fish poles

pick–axes

wrenches

and calendars with girls

whose breasts grow to the floor

Grampa Floyd

frocked Rail Road Engineer

beer and sometimes

Seagram Seven drinker

steak fat and home fries gummer

at six in the morning

tries to teach

a ten year old

bubble gum chewer

how to fish

work

and laugh at all

that is funny

and the how of steak fat