<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I WON'T GO TO WORK TODAY.</span><span style="font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">I WON'T GO TO WORK.</span><span style="font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">
</span><span style="font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">During the commercial </span><span style="font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">for drinking coffee with
Ronald Reagan </span><span style="font-family:Times-Roman"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">we brush our teeth in the
river
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">with a hundred neighbors.
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">My trousers are just
butterflies. 
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Your legs look long 
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">like long eggs. 
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Fresh cut grass. 
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">Something lucky follows,
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">and when you look 
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">into his whipping cream
eyes 
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">they sell a lot of coffee. 

</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">You just cannot bomb mud.
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma">There is work to do.
 Wake up now.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><br></span></p>




<div><br></div><img src="cid:ii_12d065445b3d222a" alt="Nebraska image 2.jpg" title="Nebraska image 2.jpg" width="420" height="264"><br><br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">Originally from Nebraska,<b> Scott Abels</b> currently lives and teaches in Honolulu.  More of his poems can be found online and in print with<i> Word for/Word, Juked, Lungfull!, Sixth Finch, Action Yes, Fringe, Alice Blue, Jellyfish, Sawbuck, Raft</i>, and many others.  He edits the online poetry journal <i>Country Music</i>.</span></div>
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</span></font><div>-- <div>RealPoetik<br><a href="http://www.realpoetik.org">www.realpoetik.org</a><br>
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