Grass Bat
Her hair was the color of yesterday’s favorite chew toy
and his eyes reminded her of a blue crayon
left to die in the mud
their love held on like a bat made out of grass
they lived in a cave surrounded by lawnmowers
but they had a defensive arsenal of dvds
and compensable sex parts
and for a while the lawnmowers couldn’t get them
until eventually even the cave turned against them
because nothing lasts forever except war
and that goddamn Celine Dion song
I mean, fuck, it just goes on forever
unlike the grass bats
a grass bat has the shelf life of a sensitive mammal
made out of uprooted plant clippings
(fuck) all these goddamn every day-by-day extinctions
(historic note: that’s how watching
For Your Eyes Only alone was invented)
the grass bats are gone
Multiverse Johnson 