Breath & Shadow

2007 - Vol. 4, Issue 7

"If I Drove Drunk"

written by

Kathi Wolfe

I'd sing Gershwin in Greek,
fishtail my way
through a sea of booze,
smile at the cops
and ever–so–politely
rip up their sober tickets.

I'd ride to Fredonia,
eat duck soup, pinch
Margaret Dumont's bottom,
and look surprised
when she jumps higher
than Bugs Bunny in flight
from Elmer Fudd.

In a Braille parking lot,
I'd jump–start the dots,
stop–by Oz, take Dorothy
to Kansas, and sweet–talk
Auntie Em into giving me
a shot of Scotch. How's
that for a Helen Keller trick?

Kathi Wolfe is a legally blind poet. She has been featured on the public radio show "The Poet and the Poem" and is writing a chapbook of poems on Helen Keller. This poem is in memory of Letty M. Russell, who would have enjoyed the joke.

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