TRANSMISSION

If this is June 1960– and why would the radio

Bother to lie to me? --  then

Dwight Eisenhower’s press secretary

Jim Haggerty is just back from Asia and I

Am eight years old and so unlikely

To go by myself to Yin and Yang’s restaurant

On Third Avenue, across the street

From The Paperback Gallery.

Neither can I buy a pack

Of L & M’s even though their ads

Assure me that they alone

Know the secret that unlocks the flavor

In a filter cigarette