Poetry by Joe Balaz ∞ Art by Karen Hackenberg
No insult my antennas
wit dat hypothetical could have been.
Da way you see it
if it looks like wun coconut
smells like wun coconut
and tastes like wun coconut
den it could have been wun lychee.
It could have been
wun donkey jumping ovah da moon.
It could have been
3 chickens instead of 3 pigs.
It could have been
wun lethal kumquat
instead of wun poison apple too.
It could have been lottah tings
but it wuzn’t.
It simply wuz wat it wuz
and dats da way it is.
If you like speculate
on how tings could have been
create some new fairy tales
or nursery rhymes
and let your theories
drift off into lala-land.
None of your changing scenarios
going get any reception from me.
I no moa time foa your fanciful agenda—
I got wun appointment wit da real.
Joe Balaz writes in Hawaiian Islands Pidgin (Hawai’i Creole English) and in American-English.
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