COME IN TOKYO

LAZY BONES
Learning Japanese is worthwhile but Im too lazy
to memorize thirty ways to say, Im sorry.
Not owning a car I dont have to wash it, no grass
grows on my balcony and I dont have a hobby.
Martin Heideggers warning about the grave danger
posed to our human essence by limitless technological
advance concerns me but Im too lazy to move to
Inuvik and live in an igloo.
It would be good to lose weight but I dont have the energy
to stop eating steak and to stop drinking Scotch.
Theres a pigeon crapping on our balcony but Im too lazy
to put down the channel changer and chase him away.
Ive never felt guilty about not doing my share
or not putting in what I take out.
Id like to be a great poet but Im too lazy to write a bunch of 
great poems, to please the kind of readers I dont need, 
to shine on a puffed up mob of a hole critics
and to trot around the globe reading to institutions
I cant stand.