Mustered with Relish

Reasonable dialog, dead as a hot dog, has been packed away with the rats. Freedom of thinking, burnt out and stinking, is now criticized as ersatz. In the land of money, the currency is lies. … Read more

Melt Freeze

Two waters wet and dry burn and chill illuminate mountains extinguish stars melt freeze pose timidly on leaves sweat bullets in peacetime shimmer in war calling sand to task impregnating rivers screaming tears dilute and … Read more

T-Bone’s Stake

Well it’s T-Bone and the Russkies and their pack of inbred huskies we see scrambling every day for some solution. Seeking some equation that will pacify the nation, maybe say it’s just evasion, not collusion. They … Read more

May Day 49

Forty nine questions. The croaker croaks. The tweeter tweets. The garden of heathens is showing its colors. In the weeds predators huddle. Seeds of democracy are scattered. We must be active gardeners to insure truth … Read more

Pain Baffles

It’s into a world of hurt we waken every morn, to the time we go to dirt, from the moment born. Screaming out into the light until our silent getaway, wending way through war and … Read more

Lap Band

Scooter McQuail and the Faulkland Twins had this one song they sang with rosary beads in their mouths. Sounded like angels with special needs. And sometimes resulted in choking. Well, one could see how this … Read more

R.I.P., A.G.Y.

Mother died today. And I am no Camus. She danced along her way, begun in twenty-two. A raving farm girl beauty, with rabbits in her yard, and pledged to family duty, life later became hard. … Read more

Shortchanged

Mister Sessions, I don’t deal in heroin or blow. I don’t deal in oxycontin, either. But now, for legal weed, you want to put me on death row. Relax, chill out, AG, you need a … Read more

Winged Words

A march of words lined up like birds upon a leafless branch. Some flew away. Some deigned to stay. It put me in a trance. New words alit replacing those which recently took flight. It … Read more

Gonzo Floyd

Gonzo Floyd, a country Pink alum, sat on his porch, regardless, chewing gum. He had a Stratocaster, that was speckled with old plaster where he had once devoured several walls. He swore that he would … Read more

Spring Straining

Older does mean slower, with very few exceptions. The average drops, there’s more bad hops, your eyes don’t pass inspections. Corrections only last so long. They seem to have your number. Your contract’s running out … Read more

Malapropic Oversight

Zen parasites amass in subtle grandeur. Invincible, inviolate and destitute. Imagination spawns balloons of oversight. The helix doubles back along its route. We are helpless. Help us, Mister Everything! Put our feet upon the path … Read more

Reconciliation Beads

We probed inherent violence, proposed opposing force. Our findings met with silence, society’s recourse. Now we’re a country station and you’re our demographic. We’ll tail you through the nation, through hell and heavy traffic. We’ll … Read more

March Madness Again

Looks like we’ll have a springtime filled with perps and prosecutors, all to stop a president who’d rather be at Hooters. Already we have several names, like Gates and Manafort. Papadopoulos and Flynn have had … Read more

Faux Pho (1974)

Far away in the nearest corner where the brown hot orange tree swung its globe the grass unburned was shaded green and dark below the hanging wood. A single bound dislodged the fruit and stripped … Read more

Callow Mystic

He choked at the fishbone market and froze up the watering place. His lies were little lessons, terribly unscientific but frighteningly real. Sputtering vile mare’s nest! He sank in his own filthy dreams, reeking of … Read more

X-mas Fire (1974)

(snow belles shuffling in their frozen dive, jock frost chipping at your glow) There was never a time like this. Elves on the shelves, toys for the boys And girls, and even the animals, Nipping … Read more

Vacancy

I thought I was abed. I felt it in my head. The pillow hard but round, a rock upon the ground. The blanket leaves and weeds, sufficient to my needs. The breeze my temp control, … Read more