Everything Is All Right
Phil Estes
The neurologist on the radio says “You deserve Your memory.” My friend Scott, on his birthday, says: “37 Is my 9/11. Everything Changed, man.” Haesong: “No, you just realized.” Scott picked strawberries in Iowa And got $800, Tax time. Bought everyone drinks for the people Who bought him drinks, Does it every year For new people he knows now, How cool is that? * Everybody is here and we’re all fine, We have our phones. Look at the maps, The radar. Storm is coming, Let’s just watch the clouds. Like the move? I move so slow When it is nice out here: Here comes the black widows, The hail. Here comes Oral Roberts In his polyester, here he comes, he tells us: “Shorts are okay except in the library, But shorts are okay In the prayer tower, during the marathon.” It’s Oklahoma. Say it, Say it like “It’s Chinatown.” Cheesy,
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