Mating Saliva

A girl in a green mini-
skirt, not very pretty, walks
   down the street.

A businessman stops, turns
to stare at her ass
that looks like a moldy
   refrigerator.

There are now 200,000,000 people
   in America.

Copyright Credit: Richard Brautigan, “Mating Saliva” from The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster. Copyright © 1968 by Richard Brautigan. Used by permission
of Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Source: The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968)