“Crazy on Alder (Eight Cups of Coffee)” and “Late to Work”

By Raud Kennedy

Crazy on Alder (Eight Cups of Coffee)

Picking at a hangnail

sitting next to a guy

with Elvis sideburns

and a K-Mart tie.

We're shaven apes

dressed up and behaving

so Homo Sapiens

won't incarcerate us

in 6 by 8 cells.


Late to Work

Maybe she'll have to sleep

with her boss to keep her job

even if her boss is a woman

and a Muslim

and she's a Jew

who used to be a man

but is now a woman

who used to fancy men

but now only goes for

transvestites.