From The Song Collides, published by Anvil Press in 2011.
Have you heard the one about the travelling St. Peterwho put velcro tape on a rooster’s ass then jumpedfrom the top of the Empire State building into a herdof elephants wearing suspenders until Tarzan took off hissunglasses the better to see a chicken dart into the roadwayand in the meantime the farmer’s sons have been digging a holein a field discussing hamsters wrapped in electrician’s tapeand every few minutes one of them steps outside the circleto screw in a light bulb so the sunburned penguin turns tothe American and says, “You know, Superman, sometimesyou can be a real prick.”