It Was One of Those Mornings - Sheldon Biber
It was one of those mornings
A cockroach woke up
Thinking he was Kafka
A man who believed the Earth was flat
Fell Into the Grand Canyon
Two women riding on a crosstown bus
Got off at Poughkeepsie
A schizophrenic caught himself cheating at cards
And refused to talk to himself
A woman with three breasts
Gave birth to quadruplets
A night watchman who had spent a third of his life dreaming about freedom
Developed insomnia
A struggling artist became a landlord
In order to devote more time to his art
A poet who claimed she was doing research on the bodies of men
Lost it all when her freezer defrosted
A Midwestern governor imposed Stop-and-Frisk laws
At all nudist camps
A bisexual schizophrenic
Said he didn't need anybody
A woman cursed with the power of total recall
Remembered everything at once
A man who believed the Earth was round
Fell into the Grand Canyon
A cockroach woke up
It was one of those mornings
© 1983 by Sheldon Biber