Karl Koweski

happy meal


my five year old daughter

and I are engaged in

another one of our

heart to heart talks


we have these conversations

occasionally, every time

I need to convince myself

Gloria is happy and I've

done everything within my

power to be a good father


so what do you want to be

when you grow up...

besides a kitty cat? I ask


a kitty cat


besides a kitty cat I says

a singer?  a writer?

a ballerina?  an actress?


a McDonald's girl, she says

the thought of unlimited

happy meals so enticing she

can hardly wait to grow up


McDonalds?  with a sinking

heart I ask how she's going

to provide for her daddy

working a minimum wage job



setting the mood


my reputation as a porn connoisseur

is widespread throughout the factory

so when Dan-O handed me an unlabeled

tape telling me to enjoy, I thought

nothing out of the ordinary


later that night, with the kid asleep

I popped the tape into the VCR and

settled onto the couch with my wife


the video began with a close-up

of a man' bowed head

take it, take it, bitch, he gasps

shoulders undulating as the camera

reared back revealing the chicken

he had pinned against a tree stump


I grabbed the remote, hit fast forward

avoiding the wife's horrified glare


next is a pretty brunette, naked

spread-eagled across a bare mattress

this is better, I thought just before

a collie was led into the room


next was a man and his goat

followed by a threesome with a llama

I gave up after the pot-bellied pig


I'm going to bed, my wife said

after I ejected the tape


alone




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