a little atomic bomb

a little atomic bomb
(Charles Bukowski)

oh, just give me a little atomic bomb
not too much
just a little
enough to kill a horse in the street
but there aren't any horses in the street
well, enough to knock the flowers from a bowl
but I don't see any
flowers in a
bowl

enough then
to frighten my love
but I don't have any
love

well
give me an atomic bomb then
to scrub in my bathtub
like a dirty and lovable child

(I've got a bathtub)

just a little atomic bomb, general,
with pugnose
pink ears
smelling like underclothes in
July

do you think I'm crazy?
I think you're crazy
too
so the way I think:
send me one before somebody else
does.