SALOON

This Garlic comes in -

  toting two six-guns,
  a taste of onion in his mouth -

and says:

  "Anybody here
  seen any
  WEREWOLVES?"

whereupon
a few furry cowboys
slouch out the back door,

and the Hearts in the place
start to applaud -

  draining large vessels of blood -

as Cholesterol comes out of the kitchen
with a freshly killed spaghetti

and the Garlic lies down

  to be buried
  and eaten alive.


          copyright 1989, James B. Chevallier