Ivy Poem
Adam LeFevre, Ivy Poem — June 3, 1972
HOW TO MAKE AN IVY SANDWICH
Go buy a loaf of bread.
Take two slices and spread butter on one, mayonnaise on the other.
Place the prepared slices on a windowsill in warm sunlight.
Then go to sleep.
Sleep for six days.
On the seventh, rise up and check the bread.
By this time it should have a life of its own.
It should be green as spring.
Take off all your clothes and purify your body.
Scrub especially hard around the nipples.
Then take the slices, one in each hand, and march to an institute of higher learning.
Find a wall. (There should be plenty around).
Walk right up to the wall.
Spread your arms like Jesus Christ,
palms up, one slice in each hand.
Start banging your head hard against the wall,
again and again
until your temples bleed.
Maybe some ivy will float down and land
on one of the pieces of bread.
If it does, put the other piece on top of it immediately.
Acknowledge the crowd.
Then put your mouth over that passionate sandwich
and eat it, eat it.
Eat it.
