ON NPR
~mandy thompson

I ran into his shop just the other day
crying for a cut&color or else I'd pull a lampshade
over this maddening mop of messy hair
A bombastic fog of fashion error

he started telling me about insurance for his dog
grab a green apple to get the whole Beatles catalog
David Archuleta is like the green bay packers
And all the chemicals packed in fire crackers

I had to stop ... and ask him where he got
all this & he said

On NPR on NPR
It's the kind of thing you hear about on NPR
between Keillor telling stories about Guy Noir
Edelstein reviewing Where The Wild Things Are
Scott Simon interviews Kareem Abdul Jabbar
It's the kind of thing you hear about on NPR

& he styled & talked about Renee Montagne
and Earth and Sky and Day to Day
Echoes and Talking Plants and Lost and Found Sound
and Hearing Voices and Future Tense and Here and Now

And the American Battalion in Afghanistan
and Obama's alliance announced in Japan
& when he finally finished with my hair
I thanked him & tipped & climbed out of his chair

& when I started my car I spun my dial to NPR

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