Random Writings

A Poem for the Girl

i bet california is full of swimming pools. i bet it's so hot that people spend the whole day in their pools, down in the cool blue water, like a herd of hippos. i bet at night they wander around downtown l.a. in weird erie hippo silence like a pack of giant stray dogs. i bet they howl at the moon in their angelic hippo choirs. i bet they're really clean from all that lounging around in pools. i bet they never pay their property taxes because - really - who's gonna mess with a herd of hippos? i bet, when they're hungry, they eat little plastic marbles the same colour as their thick hippo skins. i bet they gaze softly into each other's big hippo eyes and bat their long hippo lashes and fall madly in love.

i want to be a hippo with you.