i
 
 
                    For breakfast today I made
                    myself an egg sandwich.
                    I took my most feminine egg
                    and my most masculine sausage
                    (vegetarian though it was)
                    and fried them together
                    in my Nubian frying pan.
                    First I coated my pan with
                    my Italian olive oil based
                    non-aerosol non-stick spray.
                    I watched my egg and my sausage
                    come together in the electric heat
                    and when I felt they were one
                    I placed them gently upon a bed
                    of my Jewish rye bread.
                    Flirtatiously, I sprinkled
                    my Mexican hot sauce
                    all over my eggnsausage.
 
 
ii 
 
                         You'd be
                         surprised
                         at what
                         a fine
                         feminine
                         masculine
                         vegetarian
                         Nubian
                         Italian
                         Jewish
                         Mexican
                         sausagenegg
                         sandwich
                         I can make.
 
 
iii
  
                            I ate my
                       sensuous sandwich
                     by my ever open window
                    while sipping some water
                    that had been raised up
                    from some Polish spring
                     while sitting before
                       my ancient computer
                         in my apartment
                        in Los Angeles
                    listening to one neighbor
                  scolding her child in Russian
                  and another one yell in Spanish
                  into a Japanese cellular phone
                   taking in the pool's chlorine 
                    while reading a new e-mail
                     from my old friend Todd
                      who is now on his way
                        from New Haven to
                             Singapore.
 
 
iv
  
                    As I finish my sandwich
                       I half wonder if
                        I have embraced
                         the notion of
                           multicult
                             ural
                              is
                               m
 
                            or have
                          I just lost
                         touch with my
                              self
 
                               or
                              if
                             I am
                          merely
                  going insane?
 
 
v
  
Yes, I do believe that when I get my new computer I'll be a
multi-tasking eggnsausage multi-cultural sausagenegg neighbor
hearing sandwich-making pool-smelling e-mail-reading breakfast-
eating egg-and-sausage sausageandegg finger-licking poetry-
writing son
               of 
                              a 
                                             gun.

-d







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