whom I asked if he could/could he not
... but he chose not (to talk)

so I tripped him & karpow!
(he flew over a speeding car),

missing a tall toll booth: he hit a cow
that had been smoking a cigar

(which ended up in the kid's mouth):
thus his old man caught him

& dusted his sections south
with a sobering, sticky hymn

(but the kid got even with me later:
he gave me the gift of a brick

as I was stepping on the accelerator

leaving me a permanent pedestrian
up one wicked crick...