taunts of bad hair boy-men
 transfix the play yard.
 mine is bigger. no mine. look.
there is no alternative channel
 for the cartoon among nations.
our smiley wiley has
 chased some tail
 feather off a cliff
 and stands now unbound by ground,
 animation suspended.
’tis only a matter of time
 until
 the forces of nature
 overcome their shock at the effrontery
 and shame gravity to reassert its
 inevitable grasp on matter and mass.
But what then goes before the fall?
 This abyss extends how deep?
 And whose tongue flip says meep-meep?