GROWL (for all the good people, and there are some, I’ve met in middle America after the election who feel…uh…taken.)

to tell a hungry man

with hug and humor and

hubris that you will

teach him to fish knowing

his empty belly

has him blind to the fact

that he is landlocked

to promise

to say to him

i can hear your stomach

growling from my penthouse

and to know that in famine

even phony feels like food