YOU CAN TELL
- by T.D. Bumppo, 1979-80

you can tell...

     secretaries by their armless chairs
     bankers by their colorless shirts
     nurses by their varicose veins
     doctors by their obsessions with pains
     housewives by their designer gowns
     husbands by their missing rings
     jews by their constant denials
     christians by their weekly confessionals
     baptists by their sunday revivals

you can tell me all you want about unique
individuals inhabiting the earth and i'll tell you
you can tell the skeptics by their sarcastic voices