Folk Hero

Like Jack London

I sit in a cubicle most days

drinking free coffee and twiddling my thumbs

Like Hemingway

I go to the grocery store most nights

to buy dinner and the odd box of Raisin Bran

Like Jack Kerouac

I get my car inspected each April

and the oil changed every 3000 miles

Like Charles Bukowski

I only make the sure bet

and drink moderately on the weekends

I go to bed by ten most nights

exercise four times a week

don’t break too many rules

have a healthy respect for authority

eat plenty of vegetables

treat most people with respect

including those I don’t like

hardly ever speak up when faced

with something I violently disagree with

have never been in a fight

and most importantly

know that some day

I will explode

whether it be across this page

or on that poor kid in the grocery store

who was just doing his job.