Aloha

Aloha

“Our form is as rigid as a sonnet,"
Jack Lord said about Hawaii Five-O;
"I'm as popular as a new spinnet"
I said to a hostile poetry crowd.
Jack Lords' paintings are post-impressionist
the leeward palm trees red in sunrise;
I like old pictures of Ruth St. Denis
and I like sushi when it’s chicken fried.
Steve McGarrett had a little helipad
and I’ve always done well in some events:
The Go-To-Hell-A-Thon, the Eat-Itiad,
the Tournament of I’ll piss on your head,
the I’m dying (and soon) Super Bowl:
Super Bowl, Horatio, Super Bowl!