LITTLE JACKIE POTATO

Little Jackie Potato
Stepped off the space bus and started to do some things
Built a cage from the fish sticks in the school cafeteria
Locked it full of nuns with surfboards in their eyes

New curriculum for the taco sharks
In a Friday night teardrop trailer full of sour mash
She drank powdered aspirin from a frozen glass
She ate ice cream with a paintbrush

She sliced up the sky with quiet gliding
giant graham crackers stuck to her hands
with marshmallow cream and monkey tears
Cartoon squirrels leapt from the swamp enraged

For her first act of sanguine mercy
She put new legs under FDR
smiled as he ran about the dusty halls
demanding a speedboat race

Yes she was wild in those days
Hollowed out bowling ball filled with peanut butter
She made a kayak from a grandfather clock
paddled it back to Pluto

Held her breath cupped to her armpits
That's breath with a t.h., Cupid
Tipping Ptolemy but forgetting everything
She never knew about love