An Observation made within Sam Spratt's "IX. The Monument Game" - that old, dying man
who at twenty-two
got the job seven other people wanted
who would create the catchy TV ad
everyone loved
the one with the soap
dripping from the dog's ears
champion of his game
monument constructed
that crumbles one day
as they like to do
for dying men
who later divorced
in his fifties
then moved to arizona
to push limes into bottles on thursdays
that old, dying man
who is still twenty-two
who just got the job
and a beautiful wife
making spinach enchiladas at home on the good plates
Rodeyo
