No beau—let
alone
some bulbous chaperone!—
can swoop to save
the Pajama
Day pretty
little Minnie Mouse
from the gutwrenching upshot
of the fumble—
then the fall—
then the subsequent
painful sidewalk
crack—
of a certain secret
hard plastic
cartoon-
green
compact;
unspooling now—its formerly
rarified spindle
of courageous-
ly Sour
Green
Apple Bubble Tape.
