Red Tin Noodles

To tattle tale on spies is most unwise. They’ll boil you in contempt and baste with lies. Though vigilance defines a freedom lover, they’ll put you in the ground and call it cover. Their evil … Read more

Gigantic youth. Ruler of the jungle gym. Chewing crayons like pez. Unearthing the sandbox. Grown to colossal teen. Eating the phone book. Pimples like doughnuts. Squashing the school bus. Redistributing. Redecorating. Head of the class. … Read more

I’m going to buy some chickens down in Chinatown. On Kneeland Street, you hear them bleat, their entrails on the ground. They’re disemboweled daily. The pigeons have a feast. It seems an end, alas, my … Read more

We love your work. But it hurts our eyes. Though the meaning is clear, all the words are fuzzy. It starts out on a high note but never ends. Though it’s perfect for this time, … Read more

The cows have overrun the field, making the carrots juice. A band of gypsies in the trees have cut the apples loose. And morning finds the farmer in the dirt down on his knees. He’s … Read more

I’ve never seen so many big red noses. Or people stepping on each other’s feet. The air smells of face paint and rubber hoses. It seems there’s naught but bozos on the street. And as … Read more

We met in the lower register. My wings set her hair on fire. We agreed upon a moon and put it in writing. The heavy type was used to build our dream house. A first … Read more

How soon before the pumpkins rot. And leave behind the orange dot. The viscous game, decomposition. Sunrise as life’s last musician. Aswoon, the fallow season drops. The moons lined up like lollypops.

Beside the bassinet, she’ll light her cigarette. The babies in her care have smoke rings in their hair. Sometimes near diaper rashes, you’ll even find her ashes. And baby’s first words often are simply, "please … Read more

Abstract addition. Subversive subtraction. Rabid multiplication. Joy division. Golly geometry. Southern calculus. Recession. Principal’s officer. Superintendent hero. School board stiff. Busdriver ed. Monkey bars and grills. Chalkboard outlines. Hot lunch date. Hall Monitor and Merrimac. … Read more

Horizon gone blank. Soap pond, floating. Forty billion mutilated filters. Haiku heaven has shortened us, pulled us with extravagant blurbs toward ruffled outskirts we poach and penetrate. O, exchequer of ecstasy, blue dot neophyte, Elvis … Read more

He slapped the smile off the face of the etiquette boy. And batted his batting eyelashes. His "Pardon me, sir" was more like a slur and always resulted in clashes. He even learned how executing … Read more

In breaking the bone of the beak, so to speak, we’re changing the shape of a life in a week. Unwrapping the bandages, please take a peek, and if you don’t like what you see, … Read more

The state has assumed full control of my life, despite all my better intentions. They monitor me through computers, you see, and other more subtle inventions. The cable t.v. is looking at me, it’s one … Read more