Red Tin Noodles

Somewhere between the felt tip and the ballpoint, waving as its flag a typewriter ribbon, lies in wait the dreaded inky zone. Where fingerprints are commonplace and stamp pads are the norm. Where the badge … Read more

Imagine a box full of answers falling off of the lap of your god, spilling out on the ceiling of this world, where we look up and see them as stars. While we’re ever unsure … Read more

The modern world creaks to a halt. The sun, frozen, leans toward darkness. Apocalypse, now a presumption, a former abstraction, demands a reaction, and the people must vote it down. Across the oceans, our enemies … Read more

Command control has seized the blue puddle. All inhabitants are sworn to secrecy. Thus ends a stressful string of twelve aborted missions and a flurry of inactivity deemed painfully inappropriate. All aboard will receive a … Read more

Once there was a president who was, in fact, insane. He thought that the office was meant only for his gain. His head looked like an orange and his hair looked like a pelt. His … Read more

Gonna take a ride down to Toxic City. All the algae blooming there’s considered rather pretty. Everything is glistening and slimy to the touch. Particles float in the air. Try not to breathe too much. … Read more

Baseball’s back, it’s truly spring. Crack of bat and fastball zing. Diamond dirt and outfield green. It’s a time-remembered scene. Pleasant memories of youth. House of David. House of Ruth. Ground out, pop-up, long fly … Read more

We have killed magnificent people and mounted their heads on walls. We have extinguished entire species and dropped monster bombs on enemies. We have kept the serfs under control, but they are restless and grumbling. … Read more

Don’t make fun of the boy with a gun. He hangs about the bazaar every day, rescuing abused American Girl dolls, that he takes home for target practice. Sometimes he whispers secret verses into their … Read more

There’s a portal in the midway that’s leaking secret gasses. Extinct birds in the center lane are taking language classes. While coronets are exorcised and passed out to the masses, the list of devastations can … Read more

A grid of was/saw. A map of state/etats. A circle of gas/sag. The world is mad/dam.

No fox in the hole. Ecological hunting has trimmed the fur from this vale. Vague bones kicked up by marchers are collected by the children as toys. Manufactured sound has disappeared. Question marks of smoke … Read more

Why’s the hot seat so damned cold? Why’s the new world seem so old? If politics are bought and sold, where’s the truth we’re told we hold? What’s the purpose of elections when the money … Read more

Burning photographs does not destroy the past. Our history is etched inside the bone. The smoking world outside our eyes was never made to last. The song of time gone by is just a moan. … Read more

Leg pain in the upright bass. Back ache of the sax. Flat feet tap the odd drum beat. Grooves engraved in wax. Jazz is music’s elder statesman, dizzy possibilities, history’s record of the great men … Read more

Mitt just took a shit upon the Donald. Made him look more clownish than poor Ronald. The stormin’ Mormon’s dump made Drumpf look like a chump. In fact, the dude has been Rosie O’Donnelled!

Back from the dead, he landed on his head, and from his mouth words bled: "There’s nothing to be said." He’d walked into the light, prepared to be contrite, but when the light turned red, … Read more

I hope you’re not too angry that I shaved your old fur coat. The protesters got to me. Fur is murder, it seems. So I’ve disguised the dog as your arthritic uncle and let the … Read more

Pickled desperadoes litter the Andes like mileposts, way stations, altitude markers. Two grams gets you this high. Four grams gets you dead. Above, the peaks beckon like cocaine sundaes. But in the cliffside towns, where … Read more