As/Is







1.15.2005


ponka


The clerk at This
Ain't the Rosedale Library
is taking my credit
card & name.

'You must have had a tough time
with that: Ponka,'
she says like a large rock
dropped into a pond.

I grew up with Oikonens
Oksanens, Oleksuks
and no one
noticed Ponka at all.