Antarctica - Saturn Reading Series - 1998
Channel: Poetry for Cowards
Date: 20/02/2023

Antarctica 

If God had a sense of humor 
And more time in his schedule 
He should have given you a pair 
Of floppy vestigial wings 
Like a penguin’s, 
So you can be different from everybody else. 

He might as well have done it 
Because you don’t use the hands you have 
And you enjoy telling people “no” 
When they ask you if you can fly. 

(1998)

Recorded by Lawrence Miles at Revival Bar on 14th Street, NYC