Cancer Factory

Carcinogens can be found in aisle C. Around the cabbage, cukes and cummerbunds. Just before the coke and cocoa, comrade. Cigarettes in cartons, if you’ve funds. Careless castanets cascade around us. Chokecherries and chainsaws caterwaul. … Read more

Rock Candy Rain

Tonight we face our frantic god. Hillbilly period over. Period. Only backfire prevents soaring. The inevitable machine of want. Waves of personnel, dreaming beaches. Triumvirate lighting and smoke deodorant. Cooking with gas. The lawn on … Read more

Keeks (1994-2014)

The cat has used up all her lives. And leaves us with tears in our eyes. Bequeathed soft memories of fur. We’ll miss her knead. We’ll miss her purr.

The Selling of Youth

Boy who squawks meets promise boy above the straight and narrow. Everyone is happy with the tally on the square. Peasants balk perceptively and irk the minefield pharaoh. Massive waste of paper is occurring everywhere. … Read more

Shell Game

I’m walking in the city with my lobster pal. Ragged Claws (after T.S.) always draws bemused stares, and an occasional passerby will stop to ask why he’s green instead of red. This upsets the poor … Read more

Peg Legacy

It was said that Chopin had some ivory in his fingernails. Hemingway’s autopsy showed his entrails were quite stuffed with quails. We must ultimately be resigned to the things we have to leave behind. Better … Read more

Organ Solo

What we found was a heart on the ground outside the organ store. Appallingly pink, but emitting no stink, it was squishy but firm, and beating no more. It didn’t look broken or aching or … Read more

Rote

S&H and B&O a.m. p.m. GTO CIA RCMP i.e. LSMFT fm FBI tv e.g. RCA GE SPCA iud NATO blt USAF KKK rbi NASA MA DA PHD YMCA GOP ACLU lsd M&M and J&B

Down Dead Ends

He doffs his own abysmal light in petty streets of thieves. He passes by a horse wrapped in pure velvet. He scrapes his nail on carriages that may be made of gold, and everywhere, in … Read more

Men and Guns

This infatuation needs examination. A preference for guns amongst the thousand funs indicates a flaw, even for the law. Take the rod God gave you. Bullets cannot save you.

Reptillian Rage

The lizard we beheaded once was wedded. I must say I prefer iguana breaded. Of all the monsters, I prefer the gila, grilled and marinated in tequila. O, dirty gray-brown scaled dinosaur cousin, I’m just … Read more

Tom Thumb and the Bomb

In his tiny fallout shelter, singing songs like "Helter Skelter," Tom Thumb sits alone and cries, wondering what decides who dies. It was late in twenty-eight; infamy will haunt the date. Skies turned white and … Read more

Gossamer Parameter

Multinational jive transponder, breaking code on a vagrant lake. On a raft, with an urge to wander, eating lamb with the need for steak. All the elements cloud right over, like the eyes are attacked … Read more