Splitsville
A miasma of misinformed mitochondria were swimming in a pool of DNA. Put on some suits, gadzooks, you’re risking hypothermia, said a neutron who was sitting far away. It is no use, this is abuse, … Read more
Monthly Archives: September 2017
Taking The Fifth
We are in the middle of an electoral play. Romeo and Juliet have long since passed away. Hillary and little Marco fell before the sword. Lyin’ Ted and Lazy Jeb were just cast overboard. Now … Read more
Aging Bull
Here’s your receipt for all the whippings you took back in a former life, when you lived by the book. Yes, it is hard to relive pained memories. But harder yet is to walk on … Read more
The Decades Dance
I’m opening my birthday cards, most of ’em from smart asses. They got their points, my achin’ joints, I can’t see without glasses. I can’t outrun the bus no more. No, and I hardly walk. … Read more
Seventy
It would be a superb score in golf. And barely get me by in an exam. But as an age it makes me want to rolf. And that’s the age it seems today I am. … Read more
Tip Off Time
The cat loves to play with a Q-tip, a little baton he can flip and chew on. He’ll hold with his claw and just gnaw and gnaw. He’ll work on that thing ’til it looks … Read more
Malignant Toggleswitch
We cheered ’til the crowd went deaf. The war had been won in our minds. Electronic gods were declared dead. Aliens at last returned home. Water was free again and trees had agreed to be … Read more
Mudflap Fixation
Burn rubber, landlubber! Lay strips of watered-down soul. No vengeful dirt will fly from our wide wheels. These dangling machinations sport cartoons or incantations, protect the high speed vision from a possible collision. Most trucks … Read more
Pocket Watchtower
Part time pyramids float in the moonlight, a sacrifice to geometric gods. I walk the wicker bridge but things don’t seem right. I dream of making it despite the odds. But everybody makes a calculation, … Read more