Red Tin Noodles

Mako shark, after dark, hint of lime, is sublime. It’s because I saw "Jaws" that I tend to gloat. With each bite, I say, "Right. Here’s your bigger boat."

The snow is so deep, it’s starting to seep into daily life’s very marrow. With rivers of ice and white pyramids one oft feels like Frosty the Pharaoh. It seems every day the forecasters say, … Read more

Love is massacred by candy, the best ammunition handy. Pools of chocolate laced with cherry mark the ides of February. One day yearly is the ration cupid doles out for our passion. Romance draped in … Read more

My girl’s in Chinatown. She’s goin’ crazy. You see her, turn around. Her name is Daisy. She’s got a knife and by now she just might have a gun. One minute havin’ fun, the next, … Read more

My Buddha is suffering in the ice box. His pain is melting all the popsicles. Grape/orange mantra calls for cleanup, And a new religion without sticks. I pray to his grey magnetic face, There beneath … Read more

Chad had a PhD in loafing arts. Who knew that one could rest so many parts? The man would plan his off time out in charts. To move him, one would need the use of … Read more

Dot and Dot had colon trouble, period. They would have been comma if life weren’t such a dash. "We’re not apostrophe," they’d exclamation point. But the question marked them. And to quote Mark, they needed … Read more

You’re the king of the wide open spaces. You’re a tie and black shoes with no laces. You’re an endless dirty fight. You’re a tail whose dog won’t bite. You’re on permanently temporary basis. You’re … Read more

Face to face with fate, I turned, but much too late. My beneficial bruising Seemed at the time like losing. But much good would come of it. I learned, in fact, to love it. On … Read more

When outrageous gets contagious, things get topsy-turvy. Square goes round and air turns ground while straight becomes all curvy. Glitter’s thrown in with the litter. Crones become vivacious. Monks who’ve taken silence vows now laugh … Read more

No pet’s smarter than a dog. I heard someone say it. You could buy a dog a drum, teach him how to play it. Not the kind that uses sticks; that would be all wrongo: … Read more

The nest is chocked with sentimental thieves. Washed-out cries ferment the hose factory. Criminal justice is replaced with hysterical laughter. All for the better: the stocks are going rotten, not a plague in sight, and … Read more

Everywhere I travel, I always bring some gravel. It adds a bit of timbre to my voice. If I don’t sound majestic, one merely need suggest it. I swallow some rocks, orate and rejoice.

I am just a rookie who dropped a pass. I hit a sixty-two but wound up last. I’m poetry after the chiefs are gassed. I’m impossible drift; I’m the trailer. I kicked a whopper into … Read more

Manchild at the net can’t explain his double fault. His lob to the baseline was a bomb. His sudden smashing serve served no one well. In the end he left the court with his balls … Read more

No one puffed their cheeks like Dizzy. No one’s ‘stash was quite so frizzy. No one wore a like beret. No one’s horn was bent that way.

There is no place left for an angry vulture. They’re just not wanted in our current culture. No one appreciates their whole routine of flying in to pick a body clean. They and their buzzard … Read more