New Sheriff in Town

(On the occasion of artists Laurie Langford and Marshall Heaton’s exhibit, “Offhand Re-Marks”

 (February 18, 2016))

Wop, Wop, Wah…

Rev your hybrids boys

there’s a new Nancy in town.

The smoke blowing out of

your double-wide is

giving me a

C+ Athena labourpain,

with a cherry on top.

This incessant oral

occupation has got to

stop.

Do you think Mrs. Josephine Rabbit

put up with this shit?

No.

She raised four

cottontails

all on her own.

I’m handing in this apron

of silence, so

Tuck your tanks under these skirts

because this is mystory now.

Let me initiate you into

MY

dog-eat-dognity:

Δelta- Οmicron- Γamma.

It bites.

Ring those Bells Far Away Bobbie

with a twist,

and crown this

Queendom already.

- poet Alexandra Ghobhainn

[images: Laurie Langford & Marshall Heaton]