OVERHEARD ON PBS

If you listen, sometimes you hear poetry in the most unlikely places. These were all overheard on public television. I'm not in the habit of taking notes, so I can't promise that they are completely verbatim. But they're meant to be.

IF THEN

if
you aren’t
fortunate enough
to come into
your own
private
fifty acre
wooded reserve

then
I suppose
you have
no alternative
but
to buy your garlic
at the local
market.


. . .


ODE TO FÖLKFEST

It takes a rare
and special
kind of genius
to rhyme
queen scene
tambourine and
seventeen.


. . .


SOME CHEESES

Some
cheeses
are not
as
good as
others.

They
taste like
licking
a
window
pane.

Do not
eat
them.