by William Waters
I KNOW NOBODY-AT-ALL LOVES EVERYBODY, BUT
Everybody’s out
looking for somebody-special–
‘cept somebody-special
ain’t there
no more.
No more?
–No sir!
‘Cause somebody-special’s out
looking for somebody-else,
and everybody knows where she is;
Un-hunh, that’s why
somebody-else
is out
in back-a-the barn
making love
to nobody-at-all.
William Waters is an associate professor for the Department of English at the University of Houston Downtown. Along with Sonja Foss, he is coauthor of Destination Dissertation: A Traveler’s Guide to a Done Dissertation.