Got paid, so here is more poetry.

Chris did pay me the five smackeroos for my May poems so here is my first June installment. I would have done this sooner but Gramma K needed to be in the hospital for The Stuff (it is this term she has for when she thinks she has cancer) and since she is so old they always keep her for a while and run a million tests and no wonder health insurance is so rough on the pocketbook. Anyhow, I had to constantly sit vigil in the waiting room, which is what we do in my family. Uncle George and Aunt Nina, cousin Dave and his wife, Fred, Jszanus from Omaha, everybody except Showbiz. Nobody had heard from him in a while. We mostly sat around and read until the nurses said we had to go home at the end of visiting hours.

Anyhow here are the first June poems. This week we take a look at Asia, more specifically Japan.

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Sushi Place
by R. Beef Kazenzakis
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Hello, lady.
Say it to my face!
You want to go
To the sushi place.

It costs a ton of money,
To eat an eel cadaver.
That slimy little sucker
Does not make me slaver.

Oh you know I think I've got it,
You want me to be poor.
You figure if I'm broke,
You can show me to the door.

Men let's all step back and see
What sushi's really for.
Giant raw clam (Mirugai)
Is how a woman says goodbye.

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Japanese Tea Ceremony
by R. Beef Kazenzakis
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Observe the ancient tea ceremony
It is a good ceremony
Watching it on Discovery Channel
Because your girlfriend wants to
Is a bad ceremony

Crap, dude. Honestly.

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