Monday, June 08, 2009

hyphenation

why do only women do it?
I’ll hyphenate my name
to honor my mother’s family
give me a bigger name
to confuse and aggravate people

wait, instead I’ll do it right
and use a commercial product
and perhaps the company will
send money for the endorsement
call me Jack Sender-Campbell Soup



(cash or money order only)

2 comments:

TomC said...

Your Mother was a Campbell? Now it is completely understandable why you are so cool.

Tom Campbell-Gladue

jack sender said...

the endorsement has nothing to do with my mother's name. i'm Poish, both sides, since the ice melted.

for this poem's commercial product endorsement i also considered using Bromo Seltzer or Viagra.