He needed it
so he got it.
It said Made In America.
He said That's Nice.
After he took it
out of the bag
he liked it so much
he got some more.
But what he didn't need
were the bags
from what he needed
so he stuffed them
into one bag bag
which he needed
to hold all the other bags
that he really didn't need.
Then he got more
of what he really needed
and put all the bags
he didn't need into the bag bags
he did.

One day he noticed
all of these bag bags
(full of bags
he didn't need)
so he got this bag bag bag
that he needed to hold
the bag bags he once needed
(but didn't need
anymore) that held the bags
he'd never needed
except to hold what
he needed, which
he'll show you
in a second, whenever
he finds it, because
this is the inside story.


From Commandments at Eleven (Orchises Press, 1994).
Used here with permission.