Amanda Hare (6.25.06)

Amanda read the short story "Big Boy" from David Sedaris' hilarious book Me Talk Pretty One Day.

ABC's are best

ABC's are best because
continents and big architechtural constructions
can be beautifully conversed about.
Also amazing characters
can be clearly created
and bonds can be cut
and also crystallized.
Buddies are arrested by amigo's conversations
Civilizations are blown apart
and close associations bonded and annihilated
children and adults are chastised, cajoled
belittled, ashamed, cuddled and beautified
Billys, Bobbys, Christys, Amandas
Alices, Barbaras, Clarks and Andrews,
All are christened.
Before ABC all alphabet characters
bow and cringe
ABC's are best because
a big chunk about certainly anything
conceptualized by anyone
could certainly be articulated, artisitcally, concisely, anyway, anyhow