Road Work
They tell me that I must set myself some goals
And then make sure that I achieve them---
This, they say, is essential to my soul's saving,

Not knowing that I am a fully licensed
Heavy Equipment Operator
For a company called Good Intentions Paving.

On the Painters of Russian Icons
They've made blond my dark Christ.
They have drawn His Face thin.
Gold is the wisp-wire beard
They painted on His Chin.

But Child and Mother Mary?
Deep-eyed, somber and sad.
Ah, as we say in America,
Two out of three ain't bad.