DYAN SANDEFER
It Don't Add Up

I'm no mathematician,
but I got the sense to know
when two plus two equals three,
somebody is all mixed up.
Like the time
we bought nine watermelons
from the watermelon man
and he had to scratch his head
and lean down and scratch the dirt
to come up with the wrong answer
for nine times two dollars and fifty cents.
When he said, "That'll be
twenty-seven fifty", I knew something was
terribly wrong.
I got enough sense to know
something else too.
Here in our fair state
of Louisiana,
they say we don't have any
worthwhile targets
for biological terrorist attacks.
(that's what the state police man said,
can you believe that?
Right there on television,
in front of God and everybody.)
Well, if we don't have any
worthwhile targets,
why are they riding the state epidemiologist
all around the state,
telling the doctors what to do
in the unlikely event of a biological
terrorist attack?
Somethin' don't add up,
I tell you.
What are we gonna do?
Something is terribly wrong.
I tell you.