Red Tin Noodles

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

I love a tall cowboy who’s lovin’ his saddle. My horse n’ my beer n’ my hungry guitar. My yard is a mess n’ my dog looks like heaven. I don’t think my poor neck … Read more

One day they’ll teach in public schools how Republicans were tools of some evil autocrats, treating folks like fleas or gnats, promising the rich more wealth while the nation lost its health. They were sneaky. … Read more

A very tall man was standing on his roof, fishing for the moon, which caught the attention of an insomniac ape who happened to be walking by, sleep having failed him again. "I do wish … Read more

Some of the molding surrounding this world is now horribly chipped and turning grey. Time has come for some renunciation. Much beauty has flown, seeds no longer sown. Seems participants are on vacation. The dust … Read more

You duck walk like a North Korean, Earlene insists, humorlessly. Tomorrow we’ll be selling all my Chuck Berry records. We’ve only been on meth two weeks and already there are slashes everywhere, the couch, the … Read more

when i’m watered i feel like a flower i even drink when i am in the shower two cups of H2O in every hour i’m like a steamboat runnin’ paddle power i’ve got a gallon … Read more