Submitted To the Academy For Your Approval

For the entire month of December I'll be featuring my own poetry here at Zombie Logic Review. This poem appears in my book Flesh Wounds. Submitted to the Academy for your approval...

   Acceptance Speech

   I'd like to thank the Academy

   For not giving me this award

   Or the cash prize that goes

   With it. I'm convinced

   Another year of anonymity

   And privation will do

   Wonders for my work.

   I'd like to thank God

   And my father

   For being the same guy:

   Perfect at work,

   Useless everywhere else.

   I'd like to thank my country

   For teaching me to kill

   Those who needed it

   And defend those who

   Deserved it and the ignorance

   Not to know the difference.

   I'd like to thank the women

   Of America for choosing

   More obvious choices for their

   Recreational and breeding needs.

   Your daughters are coming

   Along fine. 

   Most of all I'd like to thank

   You for taking 98 seconds

   Out of your busy schedule

   To not enjoy this poem.