Robert M. Simmons  

from Morning in Middleborough... (Poems 1991-2006)    

           Fat Guy on a Motorcycle

The summer morning starts

pleasantly enough

when a fat guy with a walrus mustache

passes my antique residence

on a motorcycle.

Its aftermarket exhaust system

sounds like a fifty-caliber machine gun

mounted on the top of my head

shooting Al Qaeda warriors

in brightly colored hang gliders

out of the cloudless blue sky.

Delirious from the unprecedented heat,

I can still hear his ruckus

after he is many miles away

speeding down the crowded interstate,

and when his din finally fades to silence,

my head continues to pound

as I contemplate the collapse of capitalism

and the end of the world.

                      © 2003 by Robert M. Simmons

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Fat Guy on a Motorcycle