A New Poem

In Ten Minutes

In ten minutes your could smoke a cigarette
In ten minutes you could have an orgasm
In ten minutes you could make a sandwich
In ten minutes you could eat that sandwich
You could change a flat bicycle tire
Or the oil in your car’s engine
You could sing ‘Till There Was You,
Rio, and Carmen Ohio in ten minutes
Or you could plant a tray of petunias
You could rock a baby to sleep
You could fall asleep yourself
if you were fairly worn out
In ten minutes you could kill a man
In ten minutes you could say I love you
almost three hundred times