Red Tin Noodles

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

The man with needles had them all in stitches. His specialty was sewing funny britches. Sometimes you’d find sewn on the cuff a collar button or ear muff. Some pants might sport inverted pockets, or … Read more

No one uses fuses any more. You cannot find them in a hardware store. So if you own a house with ancient wiring, you’d better pray your fuses aren’t expiring. You’ll need to get your … Read more

Some say a man who plays gin rummy must be bored or else a dummy. What a waste of time and mind trying to find three of a kind. Yes, but there’s the same suit … Read more

They found him under Milk Duds, dead in a movie seat. The melted chocolate caramel was all stuck to his feet. His death was quite a mystery, but there were several hints. His eyes were … Read more

There was a walrus used to hang with whales. His bonding efforts all were epic fails. He had no blubber nor blow hole. He didn’t have a whaling soul. His tusks, they said, were too … Read more

Silent summer white lines in the sky always made me think that soon we’d die; more so coinciding with the noontime air raid test, neck craning to spot the fatal mushroom cloud out west. Hunkered … Read more

The true man needs an armored vessel, heavy woolen gloves and many pelts; guns and knives, blunt tools and bullets, held in place by holsters clipped on belts. I admit to only one such need, … Read more

Belle, my beauty, out of time, magnificent, eternal, stop this hand from writing these strange entries in your journal. Make the flowers grow somewhere just out of sight of man. Make the aged father leak … Read more

Better to mistake the facts than pay the deadly ratter’s tax. I always felt the better man when I could keep it in the can. Big mouths sink ships. The Fifth is pips. End to … Read more

It’s no good cooking meat now, when the universe is fasting. Surrounded by a tripwire, either way there’s blasting. Some folks fear the cowboys’ pride enhancing man’s undoing. The trees that whisper sweet consent betray … Read more

All the world’s a speeding dot on someone’s radar gun. We’re the moving pieces of the television son. Dejection chords obtain unholy vim in trumpet layers. Competing shirt and shoe ads vie intensively for players. … Read more

Put big money down upon the favorite, only givin’ two. Late game bad calls turned it to a close one, as they often do. Down a point, they had to foul our scorer, sent him … Read more

Bloody Mary, money maker, queen of under cutters: pepper my tomato heart, until its beat flutters.

The morning sun was up but looked away. A brace of turkeys scratched up on the roof. They turned assaultive post Thanksgiving day. John Zorn was tooting some radio goof. Father left the food shelter … Read more

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Animals have been getting into our downstairs kitchen for years. It’s underground, so they have rights. I once found a squirrels’ nest under a bookcase where they were using paperback pages for bedsheets. But, over … Read more

It’s too cold in the winter but too hot in summer’s sun. The forest’s turned to tinder and the ocean’s almost done. There’s genocide on foreign sands and planes fall from the sky. Somewhere a … Read more