numbers letters girls, by Billy Howell-Sinnard

The Vivian Girls Decided They Loved Hamburgers Best of All, by Lorette C. Luzajic (Canada). Contemporary. Click image for artist site.

numbers letters girls

A to Z 
and I know nothing
1 to 9
and calculations
bore me

give me a sleek car
two-tone
room to roll around in
big fins like Elvis' hair

a one car parade
on main street
with an arm 
around my girl

hamburgers
on the way to love
no deliberations or fussiness
ketchup smeared on our lips
the night not over

the scene
is always looking on
the scene

coats slung over shoulders
prepared for anything
hamburgers with the works

Billy Howell-Sinnard

Billy is a hospice case manager, visual artist, and poet. He's had numerous first, second, and third place wins at IBPC (InterBoard Poetry Community). His poem, Hospice Nurse, won second place for poem of the year for 2014-2015. Several of his poems have been published in anthologies and at online poetry sites.