Red Tin Noodles

One futon front of the other. Tatami can you see me?

With temperatures near zero, I try to play the hero, intent to go outside and feed the birds. The turkey is most foul, unlike the sacred owl, an animal too ugly for mere words. With … Read more

The lackluster Jesus just polishes cars as the haves all head off to the holidays. He sprawls in a drift in the guise of a cross and sings praise of the wage that no money … Read more

Bald naked umbrage teeming, garbage fueled, jargon-strewn half life, led in stages of decay and marked from birth, lined into corners by sidelong glances and fancy passes disguised as droplets of glory, emerge to a … Read more

Dad was not kilt in the war. Scotch tape and fine whiskey. Brigadoon was just a bore. Highlands are quite risky. Play on, bagpipe, play, with your wail and whine. I’m a Scot and to … Read more

Mako shark, after dark, hint of lime, is sublime. It’s because I saw "Jaws" that I tend to gloat. With each bite, I say, "Right. Here’s your bigger boat."

The snow is so deep, it’s starting to seep into daily life’s very marrow. With rivers of ice and white pyramids one oft feels like Frosty the Pharaoh. It seems every day the forecasters say, … Read more

Love is massacred by candy, the best ammunition handy. Pools of chocolate laced with cherry mark the ides of February. One day yearly is the ration cupid doles out for our passion. Romance draped in … Read more

My girl’s in Chinatown. She’s goin’ crazy. You see her, turn around. Her name is Daisy. She’s got a knife and by now she just might have a gun. One minute havin’ fun, the next, … Read more

My Buddha is suffering in the ice box. His pain is melting all the popsicles. Grape/orange mantra calls for cleanup, And a new religion without sticks. I pray to his grey magnetic face, There beneath … Read more

Chad had a PhD in loafing arts. Who knew that one could rest so many parts? The man would plan his off time out in charts. To move him, one would need the use of … Read more

Dot and Dot had colon trouble, period. They would have been comma if life weren’t such a dash. "We’re not apostrophe," they’d exclamation point. But the question marked them. And to quote Mark, they needed … Read more

You’re the king of the wide open spaces. You’re a tie and black shoes with no laces. You’re an endless dirty fight. You’re a tail whose dog won’t bite. You’re on permanently temporary basis. You’re … Read more

Face to face with fate, I turned, but much too late. My beneficial bruising Seemed at the time like losing. But much good would come of it. I learned, in fact, to love it. On … Read more

When outrageous gets contagious, things get topsy-turvy. Square goes round and air turns ground while straight becomes all curvy. Glitter’s thrown in with the litter. Crones become vivacious. Monks who’ve taken silence vows now laugh … Read more

No pet’s smarter than a dog. I heard someone say it. You could buy a dog a drum, teach him how to play it. Not the kind that uses sticks; that would be all wrongo: … Read more

The nest is chocked with sentimental thieves. Washed-out cries ferment the hose factory. Criminal justice is replaced with hysterical laughter. All for the better: the stocks are going rotten, not a plague in sight, and … Read more

Everywhere I travel, I always bring some gravel. It adds a bit of timbre to my voice. If I don’t sound majestic, one merely need suggest it. I swallow some rocks, orate and rejoice.

I am just a rookie who dropped a pass. I hit a sixty-two but wound up last. I’m poetry after the chiefs are gassed. I’m impossible drift; I’m the trailer. I kicked a whopper into … Read more