I Need a Brand New Friend

I saw
Andy Kaufman
playing Zydeco
in the middle
of a tired
rendition
of Light My Fire.

Wait,
look,
it’s really
45
playing
Tony Clifton!

Or the other
way around.

Think
about it,
man.

“Robby could really take me there.”

Krieger
that is.

Where’s Jim?
Oh, he’s somewhere…
waiting.

James D. Casey IV is the author of six full-length collections of poetry, founder and editor-in-chief of Cajun Mutt Press, and extensively published by small press venues and literary magazines internationally. He is a southern poet with roots in Louisiana & Mississippi, currently residing in Illinois with his Beautiful Muse, their retarded dog, and two black cats.

Edward Supranowicz has had artwork and poems published in journals in the US and other countries. Both sides of his family worked in the coalmines and steel mills of Appalachia.