© 2001 Upinsmoke 
Publishing Corp.
sarcasm’s 
bladder is
angry 
aggressive
the 
defiant thrust of January’s
smoldering 
penitentiary
blistering
the 
ripped meat of the
cliché 
but able
holiday 
turkey
wielding 
a dull bloody and sarcastic cleaver
by 
name he calls them; the uncles, the nephews:
hostage
amazingly 
the bird neurotically calls out this sequence:
Who’s 
Who!
Dinner 
Time!
Touchdown!