MARTINA, MY PUBLIC APOLOGY

smirking, after he'd played your tape
hundreds of times...he forced you on me
(he's gone, so I'm venting)
I cursed your "cheerleading" song style
swore at him you couldn't sing yourself
out of a paper bag, so I'd pay him to stop
then risked his anger in grabbing the tape
winding up a power pitch any short-stop
would have loved...all my anger focused
and heaved it and tape into the highway
where EVERY SINGLE VEHICLE
missed running over it
to my dismay
but, hey!
I tossed it just as hard again last year
with almost as much anger
....the words on that tape....
well, I've heard you sing since
lovely Brickman's VALENTINE
dear one, you are a songbird
and I can forgive you the earlier tape
that EVERY CAR ON THE ROAD hit
that second time I heaved it
after a new love found the damned thing...

(c) 2004 Maggie Mink aka Rennie Lorca