Seems to Calm the Baby

by Nick Jaina

there’s an Irish Setter
wailing in a hearse
it seems to calm the baby
it seems to calm her down
I was ten years old then
they tore it off my shirt
the Fireman’s Helper medal
and held my hand to the boiling kettle

and that’s why the poets have lost all reasoning
and that’s why the oceans have lost their seasoning

of all these new devices
to occupy the eye
they’ll be spreading lies
I’ll be swatting flies
there is no deception
like the hand of Man
it seemDs to calm the baby
it seems to calm her down and that’s all we ask

© 2007 Nick Jaina