Saturday, April 18, 2009

Operation Holepunch



A poem by Randy Ai

Dedicated to Colette Weihrauch


Look out! For this clandestine operation

Of great importance and greater implication

So wisely chosen in name and diction

Represents the empty space left behind!


Where curious office creatures scurry

I find them with thorough sound and fury

There dormant the desk lamp sheepishly lies

Among those stationary office supplies


I will liberate you from your metal vise

Swiftly under the moonlight’s guise

You will be MINE! My precious device

A servant of my insatiable vice


Two pencils, a pen, and a pad of paper

Ten large envelopes and a rubber eraser

These items I free from the office clasp

They belong now to my binding grasp


And what can stop my relentless imagination?

This great conquest invites no hesitation

Take heed of what my fertile fingers produce:

A bottle of sparkling wine and orange juice!


Even the MLA Handbook – once thought secure

Out from its warm cocoon I shall lure

And possess it with all the zeal and might

Of a madwoman in the clandestine night!

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