The night I snuck an electronic megaphone <br />Into a jazz club <br />I hesitated before doing so <br />Pranks are great but this one could end up dumb <br />Nothing in life is worse than a pathetic prank <br /> <br />After the third tune <br />After the obligatory applause had died down <br />I shouted, amplified, “Play some Monk! ” <br />That was bad enough <br />I did it again after he started playing his dumb ballad <br />The bouncer looked at me with sideways indifference when I did it <br />A third time <br />At him <br />On the sidewalk<br /><br />Michael Philips<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/prank/
