Red Tin Noodles

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

We think of your spurious garages robed in the feeble edges of flat tire lungs your oil cans like robot teats for monkey wrenches howling around the ominous batteries sublimated spark plugs and anxious metal … Read more

You know we are not alone. Out the window there’s a drone. Insect nose against the glass, photographing your bare ass. Drone, I curse your every blade. What gives you rights to invade? Now from … Read more

A snake charmer, whose room looks like a pharmaceutical junkyard, is memorizing religion on an atrophied wireless. "Keep pledging that speck of hatred to tomorrow," he repeats, while stabbing himself with a number three pencil. … Read more

There’s no refuge any more unless your home’s a tower. The elite just won the war. Rich folks have all the power. Corporate tax gifts passed the floor. Medicare may be no more. Billionaires who … Read more

Comes again the time of plastic wreaths upon the door, golden popcorn bubbles oozing caramel on the floor. Cousin Ed, supposed dead, has stopped by for some cheer. Here’s a shop where if you stop … Read more

Sancho, Pancho, Gabby, Tonto: sidekicks, summoned, arrived pronto. Some were old and some were flabby. Some were both: we mentioned Gabby. Some had wheels, most rode a horse. Not all were western types, of course. … Read more