"Thirsty Girl" By C.F. Doell

From On Our Cisatlantic Shore

(A mash of Silverstein’s Lazy Girl with

Ferlinghetti’s poem 3 from A Coney Island of the Mind)

The thirsty girl lazily waiting

waits for a drink of the water

            from the swiss mountain tops

            with Yodelers yodeling their yodels

            and secret springs of “Poland”

            in bath tubs and plastic bottles

and the snow melts

or so I’ve heard about the Global warming

and Al Gore’s movie

     but it’s inconvenient to recycle or go green

and adulterated rivers flow down

                                    waiting streams

                                    waiting mouths opened

                                    cold refrigerators

                                    open supermarkets

                                    groceried livelihoods

                                    of fly-by-night parenting

For no more time exists where just a little drink

                        could be waiting for her at the CVS

                        a Quik Chek or ATM stop is all         

                        mom could get up off the couch

or I could keep lying here

on this floor on my back

            and wait

                        for God to cry.