Jonathan Berger's Poetry: Poem of the Day
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They caught me with my pants down
literally.
They caught me with my pants down
with those teenagers
right over the border
in that hourly hotel room
with the smell of chicken blood wafting through the air
and the squawks and the feathers quietly descending
and the crack
and the iced tea
purchased sans sales tax.

They caught me with my pants down
and saw my Madonna and child boxer shorts
and my vericose veins
and my verbose explanations vacationing in my home state
and my knees,
knobbily shaking as they took their pictures
remembering this moment
forevermore.

There goes my house in the country.
There goes my assured future
and any peaceful passing of the days.
There go my presidential aspirations.
They caught me with my pants down.