Franswyze le Francoise


my inner cricket
purchased a metaphorical canoe
cut my social obligations 
in half

straddling this bountiful half time bonus
I paddled 
I practiced
my noblesse oblige
I learned how to 
franswyze le Francoise
butter up the Brits
coddle the Kurds
and anglicize the Yanks
neatly

my legs twitch,
harmonize, regaling
my inner cricket

the boy poets do a drive-by