Harvard Mug

Smash and Grab

By: Charles Giuliano - Oct 09, 2015

Harvard Mug

Me and Phil Bleeth
Titubating hipsters
Strolling Comm Ave.
In the Square
Near Hong Kong
Eons ago
Students selling
Fancy Harvard mugs
Ornate and expensive
Let me see one
Grabbed it and took off
Thief on the run
Outrageous stunt
Surreal existentialism
Street theatre
Of the absurd
Performance art
Something like that
Turned around
Phil cracked up
Frozen in place
Doubled over
Held hostage
Not hip to the scam
Happened too quick
Jammed up accomplice
Oh shit
I walked back
Handed it over
Ruined the gag
Grabbed a beer
Still laughing
Decades later
By e mail to
Thailand
Where he lives
On the lam