Punch and Judas
I can’t ignore the puppet strings, the wire that connects the wood to blood. I can’t forget the man who sings such lonely ballads, boots all caked in mud. I cannot feel the empathy with … Read more
I can’t ignore the puppet strings, the wire that connects the wood to blood. I can’t forget the man who sings such lonely ballads, boots all caked in mud. I cannot feel the empathy with … Read more
No one puffed their cheeks like Dizzy. No one’s ‘stash was quite so frizzy. No one wore a like beret. No one’s horn was bent that way.
Where to are you bound if not in the ground? The sky is the limit, they say. You fly to a peak and stay for a week, then rise into heaven one day. The dirt … Read more
There is no place left for an angry vulture. They’re just not wanted in our current culture. No one appreciates their whole routine of flying in to pick a body clean. They and their buzzard … Read more
The man with needles had them all in stitches. His specialty was sewing funny britches. Sometimes you’d find sewn on the cuff a collar button or ear muff. Some pants might sport inverted pockets, or … Read more
No one uses fuses any more. You cannot find them in a hardware store. So if you own a house with ancient wiring, you’d better pray your fuses aren’t expiring. You’ll need to get your … Read more
Some say a man who plays gin rummy must be bored or else a dummy. What a waste of time and mind trying to find three of a kind. Yes, but there’s the same suit … Read more
If it was God invented mucus for our sinus cavities, He’d be the damned George Lucas of headspace depravities. Nasal canals fill up with liquid that turns into rock, then melts again and squirms like … Read more
They found him under Milk Duds, dead in a movie seat. The melted chocolate caramel was all stuck to his feet. His death was quite a mystery, but there were several hints. His eyes were … Read more
There was a walrus used to hang with whales. His bonding efforts all were epic fails. He had no blubber nor blow hole. He didn’t have a whaling soul. His tusks, they said, were too … Read more
I think I hear daylight coming. Its trashing cans crash, motors rev and voices sprinkle. Sometimes I try to lock it out with blankets, shades and pills, but not today. Today I am eager for … Read more
Silent summer white lines in the sky always made me think that soon we’d die; more so coinciding with the noontime air raid test, neck craning to spot the fatal mushroom cloud out west. Hunkered … Read more
The true man needs an armored vessel, heavy woolen gloves and many pelts; guns and knives, blunt tools and bullets, held in place by holsters clipped on belts. I admit to only one such need, … Read more
Belle, my beauty, out of time, magnificent, eternal, stop this hand from writing these strange entries in your journal. Make the flowers grow somewhere just out of sight of man. Make the aged father leak … Read more
Better to mistake the facts than pay the deadly ratter’s tax. I always felt the better man when I could keep it in the can. Big mouths sink ships. The Fifth is pips. End to … Read more
It’s no good cooking meat now, when the universe is fasting. Surrounded by a tripwire, either way there’s blasting. Some folks fear the cowboys’ pride enhancing man’s undoing. The trees that whisper sweet consent betray … Read more
All the world’s a speeding dot on someone’s radar gun. We’re the moving pieces of the television son. Dejection chords obtain unholy vim in trumpet layers. Competing shirt and shoe ads vie intensively for players. … Read more
Put big money down upon the favorite, only givin’ two. Late game bad calls turned it to a close one, as they often do. Down a point, they had to foul our scorer, sent him … Read more
Bloody Mary, money maker, queen of under cutters: pepper my tomato heart, until its beat flutters.
The morning sun was up but looked away. A brace of turkeys scratched up on the roof. They turned assaultive post Thanksgiving day. John Zorn was tooting some radio goof. Father left the food shelter … Read more