Rabies Shot

It's Salman Rushdie's
birthday
today.

And the U.S. Open
is on the
air.

Iran's lips are still
being zipped.

And there are
tent cities
in America.

And the weather
here,
here in Illinois,
is
hot and humid,
thick,
"sultry" as an
old friend would say.

I am tired,
I am tired,
and unwired,
racing with my pedal
to the
floor,
(to the floor)
and my
transmission
in neutral.

But I can't
help feeling
good that
I
mailed
the last
payment
for my
rabies shot
today.