Q&A: Insurance

If time is an arrow, what is its target If a Flexible Flyer is the sled I had as a child, when may I become a child again Do you need help digging the potatoes out of your garden of insults Do you plan to vote in the next election Is our country headed in the right direction or the wrong direction and what did the bulldozer tell the yellow helmet’s ear Which part of your body is like biting into a ripe peach which part shames you like a rotten banana Would you like to find out how to lower your interest rate When you go to heaven how old will you choose to be will you have cocktails on the well-watered lawn where Bach conducts Bach Will you still chase after the Grateful Dead Is your life like air leaking out of a balloon, or like rain falling on a pond dot dot dot      dear pocks     pocking the surface     dot dot dot Can it be like snow falling on the ocean Can desire drown you like syrup over pancakes When an ambulance siren wakes you at 3 a.m. do you feel relieved not to be strapped to that stretcher speeding toward the grim unknown do you then snuggle next to someone Are you satisfied with your detergent Can you name a more perfect irony than the new world trade center, sacred icon of capitalism, revered lingam of profit, soaring above the 
memorial pools of people killed when the first towers fell Can you describe the scent of dried blood What about the smell of iron chains in your cell can you sing the threnody of the maggots When I removed my mask did I frighten you like a drone crossing your sky Are you satisfied with your auto insurance When ecstasy approaches why do you resist What are you afraid of Can you please unbutton your shirt now