Ice Cream Truck
We will have cones, please.
Vanilla with rainbow sprinkles.
We will have the whole ice cream truck
and the street it is on. One serving
of the fence by the water. The water. We
will take the lamppost, the trees lining
the street, the bridge in the background.
We will take one of each building.
The entire city in the background.
Please serve us, as the sign says.
Sprinkles on everything. Give us
a house in the hills and only good
dogs that don’t bark or bite. Cookies
and a cask of merlot. A winery.
We would like to order a king
sized bed with a side of pillows.
We want something besides
popcorn and popsicles now.
We would not like one of your
popsicles. We have big plans.
Plans to freeze cream on
a satellite. With your funding,
we will have the first ice
cream on Mars. What’s our pitch?
We want the shared desire
to serve a specific consumer
need. We want to recreate
the feeling of live bodies in a pile
while listening to Lizzo.
We want the feeling of mommy
hands cradling our heads.