only you can prevent forest fires

smokey the bear fired an m16 rifle
but it jammed and the viet cong
poured over the barricades
he wept about his honey
and his picnic basket but
the dead children didn't go away
it looked like rain again
he would have to hear it
nothing smells like a wet bear
but he didn't care
he liked the smell of the rain and the smoke
and the the sound of canned rations
being opened.

The medina in Tangiers

down the mogul
protusions
sleeping with the rich
caramel bedded camel like
dromedary
sweet eyelashes
mosques and minarets
and drunken mullahs
dirty dirty and sad
sad sad and dirty
poor and obnoxious in an
ancient city
dressed like an
ancient turd
'go GO that way, don't listen to me SEE if i
CARE!'

Berkeley

crust bucket
flo-nilla
ivory tongued flotilla
piracy of privacy
'aint no such thing muh negro'