I didn’t cry when my friend died

until I heard John Denver on the jukebox.

 

I don’t like John Denver

I thought.

 

Pathos does not ask for a show

of hands.

 

I blame Catholicism for my paranoid state

but I found a yarmulke under the passenger

 

seat of my rental and now my life

is changed forever.

 

I put the yarmulke on my head

for no reason specifically

 

and saw myself in the rear-view,

head slightly tingly.

 

Jesus-toast jokes are thought

to have originated thus

 

which may or may not be important

to many of you

 

but I am listening to the sounds

and relaying as much as I am able.