Chicagoetry: Prospectus: My Jimmy John's On Baghdad's Magnificent Mile

PROSPECTUS: MY JIMMY JOHN'S ON BAGHDAD'S MAGNIFICENT MILE

I'm fired
Up!

I can't wait For Iraq
To be safe For Democracy!
Fellas: make no
Small plans!

I'm openin' me
Up a Jimmy John's
On Baghdad's first
Magnificent Mile!

It's my Brooklyn
Bridge, my Aswan
Damn, my Bratsk
Station!

Help me bring
Freedom to the
People! Let's
Get in there

And start setting up
Those Dan Burnham
Six corner strip-mall deals
And get the neighborhoods

All mapped out
Before Communist China
Figures it
Out and wants

In! You guys: these people
Are going
To have to
Eat! And, no matter what you're heard,

They LOVE
Ham! I'm partial to the
J.J. Gargantuan,
Myself,

But that's beside
The point.
Imagine a run
On Sorry

Charlie's! Fellas: ENOUGH
With the Sentimental,
Post-Modern, Byronic
Ennui!

LET US BUILD! LET US
BRING FREEDOM
TO THESE POOR, BEREFT
MISGUIDED

HEATHENS! We'll put one
Right by where the old
Saddam statue
Was! Perfect

Symbolism!
Send me money NOW!
There's no better
Time to

Save!

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For my great friend & teacher, Kevin Hogan.

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J. J. Tindall is the Beachwood's poet-in-residence. He can reached at jjtindall@yahoo.com. Chicagoetry is an exclusive Beachwood collection-in-progress.