Red Tin Noodles

The bets are really big; it’s the last hand. He needs either the nine of spades or four. Just as he’s about to ask for one card, comes a frantic knock upon the door. "Call … Read more

Zeb collected Kronen. He had several passed down from his great grandparents, whom he’d called ‘Hessa" and ‘Squadroon,’ for no apparent reason. He’d been told that they were from ‘the old country,’ somewhere in Austria, … Read more

When Wade was in eighth grade, having shown some prowess with the instrument in his school’s band room, he persuaded his father to buy him a trumpet. They were not a well off family, so … Read more

I’m a font of iambiquity. My rhymes are quite persnickety. I often use pentameters to shatter some parameters. If you hear that I’ve been rhymin’, find a tree and just start climbin’.

Inauguration day. The clouds won’t go away. The sky above D.C. is almost dark. There’s protest down the block from people still in shock. The contrast to the past events is stark. One remembers J.F.K., … Read more

My new year’s resolution is to start a revolution, to turn the tide against this fascist wave. There’s only one solution to insure evolution, to send this despot legion to its grave. Take to the … Read more

She breeds like centipedes. She feeds. She needs. She bleeds. The suffering mother of millions aims high, perhaps even quadrillions. Her womb is a room to so many, it once earned a line from Jack … Read more

Can you write me a prescription, doc, for some dilaudid, please? I heard it helped with Elvis. I have trouble with my knees. And maybe a few percodans would help me with my head. But … Read more

T’was the night of seismics that we all lucked out, seeking entertainment in the underground, came upon a dark spontaneous cabaret even all the locals had been mum about, where we saw a small girl … Read more

Kind castles create bland rulers. The harsh flag scoffs at victory. Prepare to die by poison ideas. The armor of the future is speed. Pure evil is the fulcrum of doubt. Get over it: forget … Read more

Pebbles married Pogo and upgraded to a swamp. Scooby Doo and Snoopy had a wedding with much pomp. Daisy Duck wed Road Runner; it happened much too fast. Sluggo married Orphan Annie; it’ll never last. … Read more

Some nights, I just want to drink some Drano. The world feels like one massive backed-up sink. I wonder if I have gone insane, oh, what’s the use is often what I think. But alas, … Read more

Nodding to computer radio, light years from the a.m. of my youth. Cousin Brucie fell, alas, to eight tracks. Vinyl beware of cassettes, forsooth. Reel to reel’s dying protests were tragic. CD’s were the new … Read more

Oh Santa, please bring me some nukes for Christmas. Just leave some megatons beneath my tree. My Russian pen pal asked you for the same thing. And I don’t want him to have more than … Read more

On Clough Road when I was a child we had some maple trees. In fall the leaves lay on the lawn, in places to my knees. My dad would rake this dried debris into one … Read more

Listening to John Cale, thinking of Foghorn Leghorn. Might have a fever. Early morning skull swells, looking to extricate eyeballs. Sinuses screaming with graffiti, yellow-green protests on germ warfare. Hacking along to every song, pillow … Read more

I walked into black plastic arms and it felt like home. Perhaps the hard green soldiers had taken this beach. The beehives formed the outer edges of the strike zone. Every day the new best … Read more