ron offer

in honor of Chicago poet, playwright, and editor Ron Offen

peeling yellow sticky notes

one by one you tack messages beside

the stanzas: insert simile here

use internal rhyme

end with a zinger

read Simic and Collins––

pin the tail on the donkey

cascading yellow squares,

the tail’s vertebral column

now anatomically correct

what a surgeon you are!

unpaid, disproving the old adage

there is such a thing as a free lunch

published by Memoryhouse Magazine Fall 2021