Red Tin Noodles

Bob was Bobby ’til he learned of palindromes. For his living spaces, he sought motor homes. His history was built upon deceptions. He’d been to some Republican receptions. And on his wall a Spiro Agnew … Read more

Kid, they will write on your back, scratch your name on the walls with your own petrified eyelids. They told me and they will tell you to climb up and jump down. Stares, vague and … Read more

That I cannot play the guitar any better than I do after fifty years of trying’s disappointing. Bad hand neurons. Brain lanes blocked by Mighty Mouse and Whitey Ford. My only little league hit was … Read more

The bespectacled one is out flying his kite, losing his house keys, adding some weight. Surely this storm will make the diary. Poor Richard is, of course, asleep early, dreaming of swimming the English Channel. … Read more

All I want for Christmas is a gun, just like little Ralphie, except real. Armor-piercing bullets would be fun, and a barrel made of polished steel. Santa, bring me ammo clips, body targets, liquor nips. … Read more

Whose dusty boots are those, standing at attention in the car stripped of its plumage near the desecrated rag? The ground, so hard in the winter sun, a pellet in the soft heart of a … Read more

Checking their watches by the radium glow, three dogs salivate same time each night. Pavlov rings them up with news. Pound is down. Old bones in Sahara found. Ears perk. Tails wag. Notes are taken, … Read more

My mother’s ebony chopsticks are not in storage. My George Mikan doll is in storage. My little basketball plaything that was so complete, Even to the elastic strap on his teeny safety glasses. I used … Read more

Numerical questions posit alphabetical answers. A second hand imposes sudden death rules. Best then to accept ties and play again tomorrow.

There’s no refuge any more unless your home’s a tower. The elite just won this war. Rich folks have the power. Corporate tax gifts handed out by Republicans no doubt help the wealthy, hurt the … Read more

The eggs of infinity hatch and roll, downhill, to the season of their choice, where they are boiled in an era of reality, salted heavily in tears, and served up to the thieves out in … Read more

They offed my favorite soap opera character. He was poisoned and strangled, found dead in a crashed Porsche. Could have been his mercenary stepfather, mistress, daughter or maid. He’d recently argued with them all, though … Read more

Press the petal to your hand with my heart. It needs you beyond the mere forest of our limbs. While bitter tears in barren ground remain, This seed must grow larger than our sorrow, Pollinating … Read more

Later for you, paratrooper. The dawn just ate your target. Another war will crop up before nightfall. Otherwise, what will we do with our tanks? Somewhere, another terrorist is born. And a schoolkid shaves his … Read more

We all elbowed up to the bar, thinking Sunday/Monday in a Tuesday kind of way. On the t.v. came another launching. Puppets on the railing gave us shoeshines. Everyone was thinking entertainment. We had many … Read more

At first there was amorous addition, soon followed by sexual subtraction. And then came perverse multiplication, leading naturally to lewd division. Some drew the line at pornographic calculus, after struggling through hot geometry, Then they … Read more

Death decks out in painful forms, staggered hours and waiting lines, fighting foul earth winds and storms, searching for more grand designs. Man is fruitless, funny, hollow, trapped inside a shell of time. Leaders fall … Read more

A pit full of waxed nostalgia awaited the takers of sound, a groove in the earth like a natural birth, all the needles gone deep underground. When a feathery wisp like a dancer sifted up … Read more