La Vie Est Belle

by MC Solaar

A Monologue:

I'm sitting on a grassy knoll
Sharing marijuana and club sandwiches
With Adam West and Eve Ensler.
The bread is lightly toasted and Adam & Eve
Are making out, I'm chewing and watching
These ducks circling each other
In a nearby pond. I notice a
Perfect balance
Of meat, lettuce,
Tomato, cheese, and sauce still
Doing somersaults and cartwheels
On my tongue and down my throat.

The sun is mixed liberally
With the air and clouds
And grass and birds. Warblers,
Blue Jays, and swallows
Are singing high notes of joy above
On telephone lines, an avian force
In between V formations heading
North. Adam makes a joke
About rip-away burkhas and Eve
Laughs, painfully aware of
The war going on
In the middle East. We remember

The gross statistic of women who
Are being raped in this country,
Full of "freedom" toting hawks and
(free) speech interrupted or pacified, in
This country of peace.