ESPIONAGE

Howard went out
on a mission of espionage
in the name of the seagull god.
Searching for the heart
of an enemy's power,
he wore a trench coat
and a tophat
and was heard
making the noise
of an angry washing machine
that had seen too many
empty nostrils.
He wasn't sure if he liked
that sort of peanut butter
but that hardly mattered.
He collected his thoughts
in a brown paper bag
which he later
threw behind his house
onto the top of a closed dumpster.
It was the most magical night of his life.