“Whose Day Is It, Anyway?”
The Poet Mulls over Some of the Choices
Frank Capra of Happy Endings & Leftist Leanings Day!
That’s one we could use.
Is it your day,
Rocky Graziano ,
idol of my teen years
with your thick voice on the radio
“It was a good fight
I was in good condition
Hello, Ma”
(I got your autograph at a grocery store on Spring St)
Madonna ?
Madonna Mia or as we used to say
“Marron!”
Then a few years later it was
Julie Bovasso Day
Julie doing “The Maids”
in a tiny downtown theatre,
turning gender & theatre around/1952
Whose day is it anyway?
Maybe we could rename it
every year–
Carpe Diem, Tony!
You never know, you know?
(or whatever that name was he said
week after week
I never figured it out–)
Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash
wherever you are”
And the grown-ups would turn off the radio
and we’d go to bed
O It’s
Louis Prima Day, for sure!
We gotta have one of those!
Or wait
Who knew it could be
Frank Zappa Day
Was he actually born on this planet?
You choose