Albuquerque’s Hottest Chili Pepper

Each Tuesday after school

three hours after lunch

three hours until supper

I started my delivery route.

 

Here and there

was a porch

with a six foot strand

of two hundred chili peppers.

 

One hundred and ninety nine

is exactly the same

as two hundred

except that one’s even

and the other’s odd.

 

It wasn’t stealing

it was

selective pruning.

It wasn’t stealing

it was

complimentary testing.

It wasn’t stealing

it was

advanced famine relief.

 

It wasn’t mild

it was hellfire

instant karma.

It wasn’t mild

I needed a hose

at every house.

It wasn’t mild

it was Albuquerque’s hottest chili pepper.


Copyright © 2001 George Goddard

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