For Amanda, With Love

Be careful what you call me.

I will give it back. If you call me Bubble Butt

I’ll blow it up your, well, 

you know what I mean.

Amanda is my given name,

not Amandabannanapanda,

call me Amanda-Commanda-

Demanda. I’m a do-it-

yourself kinda lady.

You don’t like the way

I scowl? It’s passed

down from my mother.

Believe me. Or else.

published in Sonnets to Sing