POEM OF THE DAY BY VICTOR SMITH

lucy’s favorite story

it usually takes about 4 beers for me

but lucy’s time machine runs on vodka

then she’ll tell anyone who will listen

about the time me her and banjo

sat drinking under a downtown bridge

and we saw a christmas tree fall

from the back of a truck

and how banjo dared 5 lanes

of rush hour traffic to rescue it

the kicker she says

was not that he was jewish

but that he almost made it

-Victor Smith