Poems of the Week

Celebration Consternation

by Marshall Begel

“’Please, Philadelphia, I implore you as your mayor: Do not climb light poles or anything else,’
Parker said at a news conference about [Super Bowl] celebration preparations.”
NBC

Spike the lamp posts, grease the poles,
Lock down everything that rolls?
Cordon off the boulevard?
Call the Pennsylvania guard?

Think of all the funds we’d save
If our fans would just behave.