Showing posts with label Lady Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lady Day. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

INTERVIEW WITH LADY BUG JOHNSON.



Beg pardon, man, but there are all kinds of Ladies!
Lady Di. Lady Day. Lady Bird. Guess there’s Larry Bird &
Big Bird, too. Lots of Birds. See this picture? That’s me
in my polka dot plastic blouse w/ the polka dots you-know-
where-hoo. Johnson’s not my real name, no, not at the moment.
On occasion I fancy that I’m the Lady who Lyndon B
passed up: Lyndon B & Lady Bug 4ever! 2gether! 6cess!
I like to describe my age as Advanced & my condition as Fair.
Do you know the Lady Bug?, it’s my dance, I still do it,
arms out like a hoot, hands on yr knees, make you see spots!
In regard to Lady Bird—did she eat seed? Did she have wings?
A beak? Beg pardon, man, but there are all kinds of Ladies!
I go as Ladybug, I go as Lady Bug, I sprinkle nutmeg
like a liberal, but a pinch, even on a glass of Sweet Lucy.


[NaPoWriMo Sonnet #23. Too, see The Looks Dept.]