I want to make you laugh, but I'm bad at that.

Nothing would make me laugh more
than a raccoon in a banana tree,
except maybe if his fingers and toes
were spoons and forks. 
Then he could carveswivel down when he fell-
banana peels are slippery
and some things just aren't funny anymore. 
But some are,
like an armadillo
who married a frog, and slapped her
because their baby was definitely a frog-pig, and more than that
while he was away at work
frog-pig got a nose-piercing. 
I asked the homeless man sitting next to me at a bus stop
what did he honestly think of Freud,
and he asked if I had a quarter. 
Freud not, I said. 


-Citron