watermelons on lemon trees

by kairo

Posted to Action Poetry on 2001-12-11 11:09:00

i am traveling with johnny boring.
we’re on the highway to love.
holding the hands of maniac hitchikers,
giggling escaped waywards
and jesus himself as he comes a-knockin.

yeah, man,
me and johnny boring will change the world.

we’ll knock down those factories of beauacracy
and plant watermelons on lemon trees.
we’ll paint the town square tangerine
and offer mugs of hot chile pepper cocoa
to every joe and sally who saunters by.
standing on circus boxes
we vow to samba with the crowds,
to sing the stars down from heaven
to preach to the masses that this
is not
enough.

STAND UP! johnny boring will shout,
STAND UP AND DANCE!!
and the world will dance.

we have decided
the two of us will travel from state to state
with songs, tambourines and litlle else,
changing all laws
all rules
all ways of the mundane
with our sequined puppet show and mood rings.
(we will be thanked with pints of red beer.)

riding shotgun through missouri
i stare at his smile
and think,
i ain’t got it too bad, man.
not too bad at all.
then go back to drawing
watermelons
on lemon trees because
this is it,
me and johnny boring
against the world.