My Housewarming Gift

Most neighbors gift apple pie to welcome the newly moved in

My family got ours sliced and delivered in different ways

Mine was flung at me soon after we offloaded our lives

Randomly crammed kitchenware stuffed with my He-Man and G.I. Joe figurines

My sister's Sunday through Saturday underwear strewn in non-sequential order

With toiletries in what seemed like not enough boxes

I think it came from the Methodist church of all places

Which had a playground only a expletive's throw from my backyard

That word was wrapped in a new car bow - minstrel show redder than the lips of Daddy Rice

And came out the boy's mouth a dust devil

Which whisked rocks, pebbles, and clouds of clay to the soles

Of my fluorescent green and white L.A. Gears