Sobering Advice

Sobriety binge will leave you unhinged. It’ll teetotal all of your sums. Your pals will be way out there chomping on stars, but you’ll just be left with the crumbs. A brain tires out by … Read more

Ant Hill

I am not a mountain, I whispered to an ant who’d climbed my shadow. My right arm was a drawbridge back to nature you won’t see on Rachel Maddow. But ants will not be waylaid, … Read more

Peach Pit

Mystery drones and space debris. That stuff doesn’t interest me. Lil Nas X coming out is what it is all about. Kim Jong’s missiles may concern, until Mighty Ducks return. New Holmes entry on Netflix … Read more

Snug Guns

Grocery store’s the new killing floor. And those without an arsenal aren’t cool. Man can’t even get a decent massage any more. And those guns that they carry ain’t old school. Got bombs and vests … Read more

Tokyo Ho !

They should hold the Olympics on that boat in the canal. Melt down the golden medals and distribute on PayPal. Forget the roadside run from Fukushima with the torch. Postpone a year for Covid fear, … Read more

Reel Politik

And now that he’s in Florida, the nation’s karma pit, the word has spread, his followers must carry all his shit. Insults, hating, baiting, grating, all the way to killing. Of course, the orchestrator finds the … Read more

The Daze News

Iceland melted by volcano. Mar a Lago cocktail, Drano. Deshaun Watson’s penis-flashing. Sex addiction defense crashing. Covid cases see uptick. Dad drops child in zoo cage. Sick! Bear spray used now to protest. Austin mourns … Read more

Spring Forward

Spring comes knocking at a cold front door. Why do folks come out no more? Answers follow, though they’re vague. Has something to do with plague. Only come outside for tasks. When they do, they … Read more

Brood X

Cicadas are coming, it’s best be prepared. Their numbers are huge but no need to be scared. They’ve been underground now for seventeen years. In April or May, they’ll emerge to great cheers. The cycle … Read more

#’s = 0 >

Numbers mean nothing anymore. Now it’s all just algorithm. Digits treated like a whore, bytes and dots like catechism. Streaming reams of memes and tics, subjects strewn like pickup sticks. All bells rung and all chords … Read more

Book Club

The poem I just ingested is already gurgling questions. But my interests are elsewhere invested. Digestion has its own suggestions. My mind has been elsewhere on manhood, pink clouds passing, silence, and time. I think … Read more

Harpo Speaks!

How dark will be our Archie’s skin? And will the royals let him in? We should have changed his name, they said. But who calls their own child “Jughead”? They cried about my baby bump. … Read more

Ezra “Dog” Pound

Some folks would put people down. Others like to pick ’em up. But the ones should wear a crown are the folks who love a pup. Those in need of an ice melter, are aplenty, get … Read more

Disunited States

When insurrection doesn’t work, try secession, it’s knee-jerk. If your land won’t serve you well, tell those blues to go to hell. Red states can live on their own. Bureaucrats, leave us alone. We are not a … Read more