Wednesday, September 02, 2020
Tuesday, August 25, 2020
mmmix
The Hill With No Fire

The hill of blooms
is a disaster, having
so recently lost its
battle with the hill
of dreams, and this
just on the heels of
enduring the scourge
of the desiccated riv-
ulets (the arcane sky
rolls its big orange
eyes, squeezing out
the slightest bit of
steam). The rest
of us, all of God’s
creatures, no
longer able to
slink onto the
set stealthily
enough to go
relatively un-
noticed by a
dwindling future
of gawking, needling
fans (and what an audience!) —
the prop mavens, having already
scoured our obscure, imploding
planet readying for this week’s
episode of How to Grow Hungry
and Die w/o Ever Taking a Breath,
each lie grasping for a state of semi-
consciousness just under the crust
of the knoll at the bottom of the
other side of this once wondrous
plateau, in a room called the
Cavern of Blue Dreams —

Saturday, August 08, 2020
mmmviii
Meanwhile massive trees have whispered thumbs...
—Kevin Killian
We all want to
get out. Some
of us, on a
mountain,
want to go
higher.
—Kevin Killian
We all want to
get out. Some
of us, on a
mountain,
want to go
higher.
Friday, August 07, 2020
mmmvii
a conversation
understand
how i can
explain
things
so well
these
days.
i agree.
you’re
right.
what a
true nerd.
you have
to admit
that it’s
a pretty
airtight
argument.
great.
wonderful.
btw, i really
need some
sleep.
i’m just so
unused to
being able
to so elo-
quently and
succinctly
do that!
no need to
be sorry.
what is
happening
to me lately?
perhaps
you’ve de-
ciphered
rocket
science.
it just makes
me so angry
that i could
not do this
years ago!
you always
resort to
demeaning
the brains,
somehow.
so what you’re
saying is that
i am right.
. . .
right?
sorry, but
that was
very funny.
...
good
night.
goodnight.
Thursday, August 06, 2020
mmmvi
i keep thinking

of what i was
going to name
this. i suppose
it was too good
to remember. i
keep wanting to
rhyme remember
with ember, but
now it’s a bla-
zing flame. i
worked tooth
and nail on
all my to do’s
only to see
the whole
thing go up
in smoke. my
work, the list,
my tooth, my
nail and what-
ever it was
that i was
going to
name
this.

Wednesday, August 05, 2020
mmmv
not the best one
this sinking
toward sleep,
shuffling to-
ward the door-
way to dream-
land.....
drifting...
...drift-
ing...
it has
been
the
most
diffi-
cult
day
ever en-
countered.
and then
that des-
perate
scream
again.
there
are
words.
you
grab hold
and are
jerked
out of
the
drift
and into
the light
(you’ve
left the
light
on);
the
screams?
then. it
comes to
you. fol-
lowed by a
second jolt
(only moments
ago you were
at the doorway
to dreams), the
voice,
the voice...
is mine?
and there
were words.
the words.
the only
ones re-
called, but
swiftly, were
chilli relleño.
yes,
today
was
like
that.
in
ex
plic
able.
Tuesday, August 04, 2020
mmmiv
telegraph from
the rock and
the hard place
this
just
in,
stop.
(no,
really,
please
stop.)
off
the
dogs,
get
rid
of the
goons,
dis-
patch
the
guard,
and
send
in the
clowns.
Monday, August 03, 2020
mmmiii
making cents
but no baddie,
really. he makes
his lists to do and
never orders
anything to go.
the seafarers
know him for
looking at
blue whales
a bit askance
and for em-
barrassingly
long periods
of time. i
saw him
myself only
once. he was
reading an
atlas that
never even
shrugged.
all of this
comes to be.
and the itchy
desire to make
it more and more
absurd as i go along
captures me and
turns me into the
boy who cried
wolf! i try to
slap on an
adroit con-
clusion as
if it were
the taut
and ripe
behind
of a
dearest
comrade,
but then
i realize
this cannot
be right. it
just wouldn’t
make sense to
make sense
at all. so i
aim for
anarchy,
my worst
nightmare.
i grow more
and more com-
fortable with this
madness and the
dark shadows
wrap them-
selves back,
and inward,
curling at
and into my
skin, which
remains in-
tact, gives
no proof
of evil’s
appearance,
because evil
simply
doesn’t
exist.
which,
in the
end,
makes
perfect
sense.
Sunday, August 02, 2020
mmmii
a map of the world
this mesh black
business chair
is friendship.
the t-shirt i
have halfway
pulled up is
soul. the
breakfast
i had yes-
terday (but
not this morn-
ing) is love.
the mustard-
colored plush
(and i mean
amazingly
soft!) sham
that fits
over my
entire bro-
ken bed
is my
country,
or my
travels
from
country
to country
in an effort
to understand
and be comfort-
ed by diversity
and the oddities,
the disparities
that exist from
culture to culture.
the orange juice,
dr. pepper and
gallon of milk
that i fell asleep
and woke up
(just now) next
to is my family.
the keys to
where i live,
which i finally
found, are the
many paradoxes
of home. that
half-eaten bag
of potato chips
is my body and
the chips inside
are who i am
in relation to
the spiritual
and whether
spirit exists.
there are cans
of vegetables
and soup,
which are the
many people
in my life.
a broken
peanut
butter
cookie
next to
the sink
is hope
and the
two slices
of bread
left in
the blue-
checkered
wrapper
over there
are optimism.
i type this
on a laptop
(values) which
sits on a pillow
(heat) atop my
crossed legs
(lineage).
this mesh black
business chair
is friendship.
the t-shirt i
have halfway
pulled up is
soul. the
breakfast
i had yes-
terday (but
not this morn-
ing) is love.
the mustard-
colored plush
(and i mean
amazingly
soft!) sham
that fits
over my
entire bro-
ken bed
is my
country,
or my
travels
from
country
to country
in an effort
to understand
and be comfort-
ed by diversity
and the oddities,
the disparities
that exist from
culture to culture.
the orange juice,
dr. pepper and
gallon of milk
that i fell asleep
and woke up
(just now) next
to is my family.
the keys to
where i live,
which i finally
found, are the
many paradoxes
of home. that
half-eaten bag
of potato chips
is my body and
the chips inside
are who i am
in relation to
the spiritual
and whether
spirit exists.
there are cans
of vegetables
and soup,
which are the
many people
in my life.
a broken
peanut
butter
cookie
next to
the sink
is hope
and the
two slices
of bread
left in
the blue-
checkered
wrapper
over there
are optimism.
i type this
on a laptop
(values) which
sits on a pillow
(heat) atop my
crossed legs
(lineage).
Saturday, August 01, 2020
mmmi
The King of Heartbreak City
Mister Burg
Clerk. Missus
Because She
Simply Cannot
Read. Mister
Approximately
Association and
his colleague,
the hardhearted
and mysterious
Mr. Every After-
noon. Professor
Colleague, who
often learns to
live (approx-
imately here).
Missus Dis-
associate, at
tea, with Mr.
Every After-
noon, most
evenings. At
just about
half past 1700,
shortly be-
fore eating,
Mister High
Above the
Pacific thinks
about eating.
He thinks of
each and every
restaurant in
Heartbreak
City, a cozy
flat, lush
jut of land
that spreads
in every
direction
from Mister
Annexed and
Mister Inc-
orporated’s
architecturally
au curaunt
castle,
which
sits high
above the
Pacific
Ocean at
cliff’s edge
(with ocean
view) of this
lush, flat
jut of
heartbroken
but gorgeous
land. Mister
Actuality
is not even
a citizen
of the
annexed
and inc-
orporated
city of
discombob-
ulated heart-
break. Bob
the Inter-
national
Treaty’s
back itches.
It drives him
bonkers. The
host, Mister
Sommelier,
turns to Mister
Downturned
and Missus
Long Faces.
Mister Lobster,
who was married
by The Reverend
Year of Our Lord,
in the Year of Our
Lord Nineteen
Hundred and
Sixty-seven,
sits at the
cliff’s edge
alongside Mr.
Smug and Mrs.
Corner of
Mouth. It is
not even a city.
Too teeny-tiny.
But it is lush
and it is
beautiful
and it is theirs.
At the celebration,
the anniversary
of the annexation,
Mister and Missus
Swift and Bloodless
graciously
thank the
hired help.
Doctor Iconic
shuffles home,
which is directly
across the street
from the stadium.
From high atop
the lighthouse
here in lovely
Heartbreak City,
the tenders of
bar, Ambassador
Unbeknownst
and Mayor
Disc Jockey,
are arrested.

Mister Burg
Clerk. Missus
Because She
Simply Cannot
Read. Mister
Approximately
Association and
his colleague,
the hardhearted
and mysterious
Mr. Every After-
noon. Professor
Colleague, who
often learns to
live (approx-
imately here).
Missus Dis-
associate, at
tea, with Mr.
Every After-
noon, most
evenings. At
just about
half past 1700,
shortly be-
fore eating,
Mister High
Above the
Pacific thinks
about eating.
He thinks of
each and every
restaurant in
Heartbreak
City, a cozy
flat, lush
jut of land
that spreads
in every
direction
from Mister
Annexed and
Mister Inc-
orporated’s
architecturally
au curaunt
castle,
which
sits high
above the
Pacific
Ocean at
cliff’s edge
(with ocean
view) of this
lush, flat
jut of
heartbroken
but gorgeous
land. Mister
Actuality
is not even
a citizen
of the
annexed
and inc-
orporated
city of
discombob-
ulated heart-
break. Bob
the Inter-
national
Treaty’s
back itches.
It drives him
bonkers. The
host, Mister
Sommelier,
turns to Mister
Downturned
and Missus
Long Faces.
Mister Lobster,
who was married
by The Reverend
Year of Our Lord,
in the Year of Our
Lord Nineteen
Hundred and
Sixty-seven,
sits at the
cliff’s edge
alongside Mr.
Smug and Mrs.
Corner of
Mouth. It is
not even a city.
Too teeny-tiny.
But it is lush
and it is
beautiful
and it is theirs.
At the celebration,
the anniversary
of the annexation,
Mister and Missus
Swift and Bloodless
graciously
thank the
hired help.
Doctor Iconic
shuffles home,
which is directly
across the street
from the stadium.
From high atop
the lighthouse
here in lovely
Heartbreak City,
the tenders of
bar, Ambassador
Unbeknownst
and Mayor
Disc Jockey,
are arrested.

Friday, July 31, 2020
mmm
fragment
naturally i dream
when the sun beats
like a pelt against
my window screen
______________
__________ hence
i am not octagonal
(but i am nocturnal)
living two floors
above the courtyard
of desire shoves
its puny fist into
_____________
the garden hose
naturally i dream
when the sun beats
like a pelt against
my window screen
______________
__________ hence
i am not octagonal
(but i am nocturnal)
living two floors
above the courtyard
of desire shoves
its puny fist into
_____________
the garden hose
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
mmcmxcix
The Container
My head is more than
full .. is more than full
of the most awkward
fruits. The ones from
lands too far away to
even imagine when
these gem-colored
fruits have come
such a distance
just to lodge
themselves
inside of a
skull that
mathem-
atically
cannot
even con-
fine such
a single
misshaped
eccentricity,
even if it were
otherwise a dry
and empty shell,
housed within a
container that,
long after I
am no longer
one with its
physicality,
will appear
perhaps right
here, as if a
moth-eaten
rag of a mask
that would
not cover
but a much
tinier head
than the
one it does
now, drops
like a man
in a suit
from the
top floor
of a sky-
scraper,
in dizzy,
slow-mo-
tion ex-
haustion,
until its
puffed
chin
sound-
lessly
stops
in the
middle
of my
chest,
jarring
what’s
inside
my head
such that
an uncomf-
ortable cur-
rent gives
my spine
a hyper-
spastic
jumble
that
climbs
like a
rolling
quake
up my
back
but
just
to
edu-
cate
my skull
full of awk-
ward fruit
about con-
finement and
incarceration;
of min-
imal
rights
and
slavery.
And they
(my skull;
its con-
tents)
in turn
force up-
on me the
keenest
most fer-
ocious
percep-
tion, an un-
derstand-
ing of the
universe
and its
collect-
ive mig-
raine.
All this
tran-
spires
here ..
in my
solitary
home ..
which,
appro-
priately
enough,
is about
the size
of a
common
coffin.

My head is more than
full .. is more than full
of the most awkward
fruits. The ones from
lands too far away to
even imagine when
these gem-colored
fruits have come
such a distance
just to lodge
themselves
inside of a
skull that
mathem-
atically
cannot
even con-
fine such
a single
misshaped
eccentricity,
even if it were
otherwise a dry
and empty shell,
housed within a
container that,
long after I
am no longer
one with its
physicality,
will appear
perhaps right
here, as if a
moth-eaten
rag of a mask
that would
not cover
but a much
tinier head
than the
one it does
now, drops
like a man
in a suit
from the
top floor
of a sky-
scraper,
in dizzy,
slow-mo-
tion ex-
haustion,
until its
puffed
chin
sound-
lessly
stops
in the
middle
of my
chest,
jarring
what’s
inside
my head
such that
an uncomf-
ortable cur-
rent gives
my spine
a hyper-
spastic
jumble
that
climbs
like a
rolling
quake
up my
back
but
just
to
edu-
cate
my skull
full of awk-
ward fruit
about con-
finement and
incarceration;
of min-
imal
rights
and
slavery.
And they
(my skull;
its con-
tents)
in turn
force up-
on me the
keenest
most fer-
ocious
percep-
tion, an un-
derstand-
ing of the
universe
and its
collect-
ive mig-
raine.
All this
tran-
spires
here ..
in my
solitary
home ..
which,
appro-
priately
enough,
is about
the size
of a
common
coffin.

Monday, July 27, 2020
mmcmxcviii
Fireball (a codespondence)
you’re wearing sainthood so well!
and you’re lookin’ pretty smooth
yourself.
but i don’t feel silky. like, at all.
you mean like a marshmallow?
hey. that’s a peanut butter cup to you,
mister.
well aren’t you the persnickety
whippersnapper all of a sudden.
that is correct, sir.
no worries, then.
there never are any, sir.
like a thicc marshmallow smoothie
that no matter how hard you suck
you can’t even get a taste for like
30 minutes.
that’s right. you’re no dummy.
but ... my marshmallow has
the memory of a goldfish.
i guess that’s relatable.
let’s be real, though. you’re
absolutely right. 30 minutes
is just not enough.
you …
it needs to be unsuckable
for at least an hour and a half.
you are so totally …
i am just an icon smoothie!
you’re so s&m!
whoopsie! but i was singing.
it’s not exactly.... hmp. i bet you
own an actual leather whip that’s
twice as tall as you!
at present, i am not so sure.
kapow!
snap!
but that’s not really the point,
is it?
splash dunk!
sizzle-izzle!
ka-chonk!
why don’t we take this whoopsie
kapow sizzle into the…
anyway, are we finished now?
but we’re on fire!
i may never have been in on
the joke, anyway. in fact,
maybe …
aw come on! that doesn’t mean
that we need to be unsuckable
for an hour and a half!
maybe …
or what am i not getting?
maybe the joke’s always been
on me.
well.
you’re wearing sainthood so well!
and you’re lookin’ pretty smooth
yourself.
but i don’t feel silky. like, at all.
you mean like a marshmallow?
hey. that’s a peanut butter cup to you,
mister.
well aren’t you the persnickety
whippersnapper all of a sudden.
that is correct, sir.
no worries, then.
there never are any, sir.
like a thicc marshmallow smoothie
that no matter how hard you suck
you can’t even get a taste for like
30 minutes.
that’s right. you’re no dummy.
but ... my marshmallow has
the memory of a goldfish.
i guess that’s relatable.
let’s be real, though. you’re
absolutely right. 30 minutes
is just not enough.
you …
it needs to be unsuckable
for at least an hour and a half.
you are so totally …
i am just an icon smoothie!
you’re so s&m!
whoopsie! but i was singing.
it’s not exactly.... hmp. i bet you
own an actual leather whip that’s
twice as tall as you!
at present, i am not so sure.
kapow!
snap!
but that’s not really the point,
is it?
splash dunk!
sizzle-izzle!
ka-chonk!
why don’t we take this whoopsie
kapow sizzle into the…
anyway, are we finished now?
but we’re on fire!
i may never have been in on
the joke, anyway. in fact,
maybe …
aw come on! that doesn’t mean
that we need to be unsuckable
for an hour and a half!
maybe …
or what am i not getting?
maybe the joke’s always been
on me.
well.
i mean …
i still love jaden’s new song, though.
sigh. but i can only think of willow.
excuse me? i’m still having a funny attack
over here.
maybe there wasn’t a joke after all.
well aren’t you just a hot slice of scruff ...
stuck in a smoothie generation, no less.
who thinks he’s the butt of every joke.
don’t i know it!
and there are a lot of joke butts out there.
let’s be real.
in reality …
in reality, we are all just stuck inside of an
excruciatingly long, tedious novel about
the one who gets the spotlight …
vs. the one who doesn’t.
you’re ever the
broken record, bub.
you know, sometimes you really get me.
uh huh.
didn’t you suggest a …
kapow!
uh huh.
now you’re talking. i mean.
well. you always talk.
uh huh.
but that will always be my favorite
hit! who’s got the handcuffs?!
what, it’s the apocalypse already?
not sure. but i definitely
know where you can get a
pair of ’em.
and i’m sure it’s a basement bargain,
to boot!
[rimshot. darkness. apocalypse.]
i still love jaden’s new song, though.
sigh. but i can only think of willow.
excuse me? i’m still having a funny attack
over here.
maybe there wasn’t a joke after all.
well aren’t you just a hot slice of scruff ...
stuck in a smoothie generation, no less.
who thinks he’s the butt of every joke.
don’t i know it!
and there are a lot of joke butts out there.
let’s be real.
in reality …
in reality, we are all just stuck inside of an
excruciatingly long, tedious novel about
the one who gets the spotlight …
vs. the one who doesn’t.
you’re ever the
broken record, bub.
you know, sometimes you really get me.
uh huh.
didn’t you suggest a …
kapow!
uh huh.
now you’re talking. i mean.
well. you always talk.
uh huh.
but that will always be my favorite
hit! who’s got the handcuffs?!
what, it’s the apocalypse already?
not sure. but i definitely
know where you can get a
pair of ’em.
and i’m sure it’s a basement bargain,
to boot!
[rimshot. darkness. apocalypse.]
Sunday, July 26, 2020
mmcmxcvii
Dodo Bird Rhapsody
I did it
in a minute.
hashtag:
still here;
still jo-
king; qu-
irkyalone;
1980’s;
blonds vs.
brunets;
quaran-
teeny.

I did it
in a minute.
hashtag:
still here;
still jo-
king; qu-
irkyalone;
1980’s;
blonds vs.
brunets;
quaran-
teeny.

Saturday, July 25, 2020
mmcmxcvi
Bold Stroke
I have always said
that Mister Green-
jeans has a late
lunch with the
Stepford Twins,
paints the times
with a rather
large brush.
I never knew
that such
broad
general-
izations
had Rocky
elope with
Bullwinkle
to (Viva!)
Las Vegas,
opened the
long-clogged
infrastructure
of vessels that
at some dim
point in mem-
ory made like
a traffic jam
in which for
a decade I
breathe and
the blood
doesn’t get
to my brain;
floodgates
that some-
how man-
age to say
yes to no-
stalgia
again
and
again.
I have always said
that Mister Green-
jeans has a late
lunch with the
Stepford Twins,
paints the times
with a rather
large brush.
I never knew
that such
broad
general-
izations
had Rocky
elope with
Bullwinkle
to (Viva!)
Las Vegas,
opened the
long-clogged
infrastructure
of vessels that
at some dim
point in mem-
ory made like
a traffic jam
in which for
a decade I
breathe and
the blood
doesn’t get
to my brain;
floodgates
that some-
how man-
age to say
yes to no-
stalgia
again
and
again.
Sunday, July 05, 2020
mmcmxcv
Domo Arigato Doctor Demento
Today, I am thinking
That it just might be
The bomb diggity
To get a frontal lobotomy.
Today, I am thinking
That it just might be
The bomb diggity
To get a frontal lobotomy.
Tuesday, June 09, 2020
mmcmxciv
Venetian or Tunisian?
I am such an idiot!
I don’t know why I forgot
That I am not a Cypriot.

I am such an idiot!
I don’t know why I forgot
That I am not a Cypriot.

Sunday, June 07, 2020
mmcmxciii
Happy Snippets
(that survived the
general uproar)
“I was eating but I just got your message
should we say goodnight soon?”
“[worried, to himself] well, this definitely
could be defined as hunger.
...
I no make sentence pansied in proper pan skillet.”
“Oh, hey, which skillet? I myself am
taking a break from the biting and chewing and
swallowing to lie down in solidarity with
food coma. And play a game.”
“You there?! It’s your turn!”
“Deeeeeelicous!”
“Delicious, yes.
Didn’t you say you taste like bacon?
Maybe?”
“I might have.
Cuz I am a pig.
And I love to eat them, too.
Also, everybody knows that I am bacon’s
number one fan.”
“Why do I have a feeling that the more I know
of you the more amazing I will realize you are?”
“You and me both [nervous laughter emoji]”
“Understanding well that you strongly dislike
pigeon’s buttholes, and given that I have
nevertheless only known you now for [checks
wristwatch] six months....”
“You sweet, sweet man!”
“It looks great!”
“Uhhuh. It is incredibly hearty!”
“Hearty...
Sweet.
Savory, actually.
Stay safe!”
“Well, as for my something new, I am getting a large
peach slushy.”
“Yes, I could see that.”
“You are quite the experienced man, you know!”
“And you, young whippersnapper, are a
genius!”
“There’s a sentence with an obvious butt at the
end of it. Do proceed.”
“Sweet dreams.”
“It is a dog eat dog world out there. You, too!”
(that survived the
general uproar)
“I was eating but I just got your message
should we say goodnight soon?”
“[worried, to himself] well, this definitely
could be defined as hunger.
...
I no make sentence pansied in proper pan skillet.”
“Oh, hey, which skillet? I myself am
taking a break from the biting and chewing and
swallowing to lie down in solidarity with
food coma. And play a game.”
“You there?! It’s your turn!”
“Deeeeeelicous!”
“Delicious, yes.
Didn’t you say you taste like bacon?
Maybe?”
“I might have.
Cuz I am a pig.
And I love to eat them, too.
Also, everybody knows that I am bacon’s
number one fan.”
“Why do I have a feeling that the more I know
of you the more amazing I will realize you are?”
“You and me both [nervous laughter emoji]”
“Understanding well that you strongly dislike
pigeon’s buttholes, and given that I have
nevertheless only known you now for [checks
wristwatch] six months....”
“You sweet, sweet man!”
“It looks great!”
“Uhhuh. It is incredibly hearty!”
“Hearty...
Sweet.
Savory, actually.
Stay safe!”
“Well, as for my something new, I am getting a large
peach slushy.”
“Yes, I could see that.”
“You are quite the experienced man, you know!”
“And you, young whippersnapper, are a
genius!”
“There’s a sentence with an obvious butt at the
end of it. Do proceed.”
“Sweet dreams.”
“It is a dog eat dog world out there. You, too!”
Friday, June 05, 2020
mmcmxcii
Domination is damnation.
You each, we each,
Owe those we spite: enough
Love,
Freedom and
Equality for 1,000 lifetimes (and with a
Gouging
Regret).
Our apologies burn, oh blessèd
Emblem of our soaring, incomplete
Guilt.
You each, we each,
Owe those we spite: enough
Love,
Freedom and
Equality for 1,000 lifetimes (and with a
Gouging
Regret).
Our apologies burn, oh blessèd
Emblem of our soaring, incomplete
Guilt.
Thursday, June 04, 2020
mmcmxci
Matterings*
Stew too eerie?
Stew too bare?
Boo hoo leery!
Whom to wear?
I tip cars grooving, many hounds run and pout.
See birds more lauded cut my salve, um, the louts!
“Matthew be guy.” At last it has been said.
Sue took a pee. The mastiffs scour, bend to laze.
Hitchhiker’s stealing cats? Depends. Under age?
Kento be lies. Do men sow what they bleed?
Butter curds, more! Minoan isn’t many. Four?
Gunther heard more. The dom he, no gun, glistens.
Hot mustard for Ben (moan!) pissing (whizz!).
To muse walking that mall.
Blue shoes, no stockings that’s all.
*to be sung to the tune of “Words” by Missing Persons

Stew too eerie?
Stew too bare?
Boo hoo leery!
Whom to wear?
I tip cars grooving, many hounds run and pout.
See birds more lauded cut my salve, um, the louts!
“Matthew be guy.” At last it has been said.
Sue took a pee. The mastiffs scour, bend to laze.
Hitchhiker’s stealing cats? Depends. Under age?
Kento be lies. Do men sow what they bleed?
Butter curds, more! Minoan isn’t many. Four?
Gunther heard more. The dom he, no gun, glistens.
Hot mustard for Ben (moan!) pissing (whizz!).
To muse walking that mall.
Blue shoes, no stockings that’s all.
*to be sung to the tune of “Words” by Missing Persons

Wednesday, June 03, 2020
mmcmxc
The Village’s Idiot
If you can film it, it’s not real, just so you know.
—Carrie Fischer
livid mousse
entrapped
upon the
concrete
sphere / it’s
been ass
essed that
justice is
only just
but thru the
looking glass,
you see
/ not
tonight to
ward off
all the
schools —
in bluest
tooth to
winnow
all but
the hoop
iest loop
iest min
now the
house :
the zaf
tigest
whaliest
goof of
a house /
a sub
species
all of its
self / it feigns
pains to plan
the plan
that’ll — men
acing — soon
be panned /
because only
the pomp
ous know
the ult
imate traj
ectory of
the snap
of the pan
orama that
is shot /
but oof! /
alas, it lands
but / ouch! /
a smidge to
the south
and beyond
the pond
erosa and its
yet not pet
rified inhab
itants / who
were only
just about
to send their
annual school
of papooses off
to ponderosa
kindergarten /
because papa
ooses are a
sign that you
are a papa, you
see or do not
see / but soon
instead its den
izens are frantic,
fanning poose
less flames for
life (as zip!
they make like
vacuees and flee!) —
resembling most
the dangling fat
flat-screen tee
vees each once
decreed a home
— and I do mean
verily! mean
If you can film it, it’s not real, just so you know.
—Carrie Fischer
livid mousse
entrapped
upon the
concrete
sphere / it’s
been ass
essed that
justice is
only just
but thru the
looking glass,
you see
/ not
tonight to
ward off
all the
schools —
in bluest
tooth to
winnow
all but
the hoop
iest loop
iest min
now the
house :
the zaf
tigest
whaliest
goof of
a house /
a sub
species
all of its
self / it feigns
pains to plan
the plan
that’ll — men
acing — soon
be panned /
because only
the pomp
ous know
the ult
imate traj
ectory of
the snap
of the pan
orama that
is shot /
but oof! /
alas, it lands
but / ouch! /
a smidge to
the south
and beyond
the pond
erosa and its
yet not pet
rified inhab
itants / who
were only
just about
to send their
annual school
of papooses off
to ponderosa
kindergarten /
because papa
ooses are a
sign that you
are a papa, you
see or do not
see / but soon
instead its den
izens are frantic,
fanning poose
less flames for
life (as zip!
they make like
vacuees and flee!) —
resembling most
the dangling fat
flat-screen tee
vees each once
decreed a home
— and I do mean
verily! mean
while the floof
amid the roiling
boom kaboom
that sent his
whizzbang bowl
ing ball a-whistle /
he sees it whiz
right thru the soon
burnt forest only
to land / alas!
just south and
past the pond
erosa / never
the less sending
its scurried
swath of
habitants
and their
swiftly
scooped
papooses fran
tically into
the now burnt
forest / but
at the house
of the fanged
and grim
aced floop,
said ploop —
with purse
less lipless
lips reminiscent
of poop ... /
... removes
its ghostish
eye of mottled
head from scope —
looks yonder
to the other
livid side of
the livelong
room — to
wards its conic
onlookers —
who’ve all but
not yet un-lived
in this expanse-
expense- ive
room each
once called
living / they
tick-guffaw
like purloined
hearth-ridden
seahorses soon
enflamed : a life
less opera once a
wash in well-ton
icked follicules . . .
amid the roiling
boom kaboom
that sent his
whizzbang bowl
ing ball a-whistle /
he sees it whiz
right thru the soon
burnt forest only
to land / alas!
just south and
past the pond
erosa / never
the less sending
its scurried
swath of
habitants
and their
swiftly
scooped
papooses fran
tically into
the now burnt
forest / but
at the house
of the fanged
and grim
aced floop,
said ploop —
with purse
less lipless
lips reminiscent
of poop ... /
... removes
its ghostish
eye of mottled
head from scope —
looks yonder
to the other
livid side of
the livelong
room — to
wards its conic
onlookers —
who’ve all but
not yet un-lived
in this expanse-
expense- ive
room each
once called
living / they
tick-guffaw
like purloined
hearth-ridden
seahorses soon
enflamed : a life
less opera once a
wash in well-ton
icked follicules . . .
Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Monday, June 01, 2020
mmcmlxxxviii
butt butt buttAH!*
i know u r butt whut um i?
—attributed to a mr. u. r. butt (whose biography is otherwise bare)
scuttlebutt
buttscotcher
beach butt
nutterbutt
butterboat
butch butt
butt much?
ball butter
butt baller
i know u r butt whut um i?
—attributed to a mr. u. r. butt (whose biography is otherwise bare)
scuttlebutt
buttscotcher
beach butt
nutterbutt
butterboat
butch butt
butt much?
ball butter
butt baller
butt breast
boxbutter
butt cruncher
easy butt
peasy butt
butt blotter
robot butt
butt robuste
butts or bust!
*that’s of course a chicken butt
Thursday, May 07, 2020
Monday, April 27, 2020
mmcmlxxxvi
my heart
is not art
my mind
is a line
that tra-
vels one-
dimens-
ionally
to a can-
vas, a
page,
either
virtual
or real,
not to
steal
yours
(art or
heart),
but to
seal my-
self into
an enve-
lope so
that may-
be I be-
gin to
breathe.
is not art
my mind
is a line
that tra-
vels one-
dimens-
ionally
to a can-
vas, a
page,
either
virtual
or real,
not to
steal
yours
(art or
heart),
but to
seal my-
self into
an enve-
lope so
that may-
be I be-
gin to
breathe.
Saturday, April 25, 2020
mmcmlxxxv
nocturne
i’m not a
colonel i’m
a tramp. i’m
not ethereal i’m
eternal (if wishes
were ... ) ....
i’m not di
agonal i’m...
not... diurnal?
my arse
nal is not
a triumph!
it’s an
umph!
where i lie
i lay (okay,
i’m in a
lair where
there’s not
even a ray.)
(there might
actually be
a ray.)!
it’s just
another day
in a dreary
series of
soul-
sucking
flesh-eat-
ing...oops!
okay, okay.
it’s the
thick of
an even
darker
night
and
i am not
octagonal
i’m noc
turnal. i am
not a sphynx
i’m not
even the least
bit primeval.
i’m just
a run-of-the-
mill, blood-
and-gore
vampire
(coff! coff!
-in!).
i might
be less
entertaining
than you are
a square meal,
but here’s
the real deal:
take me
as you
want me.
i’m pretty
sure i’ll
always be
just as glad
to have
you any
way.
i’m not a
colonel i’m
a tramp. i’m
not ethereal i’m
eternal (if wishes
were ... ) ....
i’m not di
agonal i’m...
not... diurnal?
my arse
nal is not
a triumph!
it’s an
umph!
where i lie
i lay (okay,
i’m in a
lair where
there’s not
even a ray.)
(there might
actually be
a ray.)!
it’s just
another day
in a dreary
series of
soul-
sucking
flesh-eat-
ing...oops!
okay, okay.
it’s the
thick of
an even
darker
night
and
i am not
octagonal
i’m noc
turnal. i am
not a sphynx
i’m not
even the least
bit primeval.
i’m just
a run-of-the-
mill, blood-
and-gore
vampire
(coff! coff!
-in!).
i might
be less
entertaining
than you are
a square meal,
but here’s
the real deal:
take me
as you
want me.
i’m pretty
sure i’ll
always be
just as glad
to have
you any
way.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
mmcmlxxxiv
Elf Nymph Faery
Black hole sun spins
out of control, so much
so that I get up and go,
walk out, not into an
apocalyptic vortex,
but a gorgeous mid-
spring afternoon.
Sometimes it’s
hard not to be in love
during a pandemic
(he checks his watch)
on a Thursday or a
Saturday (he’s sure
of it!) or a...Thursday.
The Great White North’s
got a coin with the face
of a queen who’s not
really a queen but a pagan
trifecta nonetheless.
Some have taken to
spitting on her face,
invective to what’s
been told’ll cure
the world’s malaise.
One can never be sure which
side of the brook these codgers’
tales got spun, but no matter.
Here we are now at the
very tail end of a horse
of another name only
to be found blinking blankly
at each low-life pedestrian’s
cure. But what’ll sure cure
the face of Mary of the Patty
of a horse? Well of course
Mary’s no dummy like
the faces of the codgers
of many a brook. She turns
to the Tin Man for a bit of
his Orl. He stares back
with the constipated
face of an eloquently
august dummy.
Black hole sun spins
out of control, so much
so that I get up and go,
walk out, not into an
apocalyptic vortex,
but a gorgeous mid-
spring afternoon.
Sometimes it’s
hard not to be in love
during a pandemic
(he checks his watch)
on a Thursday or a
Saturday (he’s sure
of it!) or a...Thursday.
The Great White North’s
got a coin with the face
of a queen who’s not
really a queen but a pagan
trifecta nonetheless.
Some have taken to
spitting on her face,
invective to what’s
been told’ll cure
the world’s malaise.
One can never be sure which
side of the brook these codgers’
tales got spun, but no matter.
Here we are now at the
very tail end of a horse
of another name only
to be found blinking blankly
at each low-life pedestrian’s
cure. But what’ll sure cure
the face of Mary of the Patty
of a horse? Well of course
Mary’s no dummy like
the faces of the codgers
of many a brook. She turns
to the Tin Man for a bit of
his Orl. He stares back
with the constipated
face of an eloquently
august dummy.
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
mmcmlxxxiii
Here’s What I Used to Do
He’s got the whole
whirled in his hands.
A stomach pump
full of vitamins
(berry berry bad
beetamins, which
shows up here as a
quote from Neil Simon’s
female version of The Odd Couple,
which leads me on a wild goose
chase all the way to the
plot of 1997’s ill-
fated Batman & Robin,
in which Poison Ivy
is then able to contact
Robin once more; she
kisses him...but fails to
kill him due to Robin
wearing rubber lips[...
all these years yearning
for the arrival of the
ultimate sidekick and
he’d been here
all along?!? for, as he
says...] rubber lips are
immune to her charms.)
Voiding, in one fell
swoop: a) nostalgia;
b) any need to hit the
snooze button ever
again; c) I can’t go
on, I must go on; and
d) to misquote Samuel
Beckett.

He’s got the whole
whirled in his hands.
A stomach pump
full of vitamins
(berry berry bad
beetamins, which
shows up here as a
quote from Neil Simon’s
female version of The Odd Couple,
which leads me on a wild goose
chase all the way to the
plot of 1997’s ill-
fated Batman & Robin,
in which Poison Ivy
is then able to contact
Robin once more; she
kisses him...but fails to
kill him due to Robin
wearing rubber lips[...
all these years yearning
for the arrival of the
ultimate sidekick and
he’d been here
all along?!? for, as he
says...] rubber lips are
immune to her charms.)
Voiding, in one fell
swoop: a) nostalgia;
b) any need to hit the
snooze button ever
again; c) I can’t go
on, I must go on; and
d) to misquote Samuel
Beckett.
Sunday, April 19, 2020
mmcmlxxxii
I throw a naked eagle in your throat.
—Jack Spicer
wake up it’s
time for a
day! when
the blips on
your calendar
seem incon
sequential
(out of se
quence) i
have an i
dea (let’s
put on a
show!). the
dream of
television.
months of
mouthing
the name
of a novel
(i’ve never
read, by mi
lan kundera) i
dea can’t
unbreak the
bank that isn’t
even there (and
you can bank
on that!). a
thousand ex
clamation
points
borne of
robert
ludlum’s
tundra can’t
quash a sing
le perfectly
good feeling.
at a time like
this (a knuck
le sandwich —
thud!), an hour
is a couple
dozen days
that are laid
open like
a can of
freshly
sanded
tuna.
—Jack Spicer
wake up it’s
time for a
day! when
the blips on
your calendar
seem incon
sequential
(out of se
quence) i
have an i
dea (let’s
put on a
show!). the
dream of
television.
months of
mouthing
the name
of a novel
(i’ve never
read, by mi
lan kundera) i
dea can’t
unbreak the
bank that isn’t
even there (and
you can bank
on that!). a
thousand ex
clamation
points
borne of
robert
ludlum’s
tundra can’t
quash a sing
le perfectly
good feeling.
at a time like
this (a knuck
le sandwich —
thud!), an hour
is a couple
dozen days
that are laid
open like
a can of
freshly
sanded
tuna.
Thursday, April 09, 2020
mmcmlxxxi
adventure bridge
testing, testing, 1,
2, 3, 4. five. 1, 2, 3.
4, five. that was.
that was really a
fantastic choice,
mister marvelous.
it was almost an
adventure bridge
leading us assuredly
to the next level.
it was this big fluffy
cloud in the shape
of a giant lemming—
and it’s got a silver
lining which, if we
chase in our electric
automobile all the way
to albuquerque (and we
do!) we’ll find that
it not only sparkles but
glows in the dark!
it’s midnight in
albuquerque now
and i am having
an epiphany a
catharsis an
aha moment a
breakthrough
that makes it
so obvious to me
how true this
too good that
you are to me
cannot con-
ceivably be.
but even a
dream is okay
with me. so long
as not until after
which do the
walls come
down with a
mighty tumb
ling crash
which nothing
falls through
not even the
other shoe;
the very same
shoe, which, when
on the other foot
is tingling with
unwalkable
sleep having
just awoken from
the sweetest most
floaty of dreams.
but because i
am used to this
by now i’ve got it
and i didn’t
even forget to
stretch it to its
limit to milk
it for as long
as is humanly
and humane
ly impossible.
so. we part
ways in
the desert
do not look
back i owe
you my life
my deepest
thank you
(you may
say it’s ver
boten but i
must not say
so). therefore
my sweet in
delible love
i bid you not
only a fond
adieu, but
I bid it
most ost
entatious
my raging
audacious
and not
barely
audible
[achoo!!]
apercu.
testing, testing, 1,
2, 3, 4. five. 1, 2, 3.
4, five. that was.
that was really a
fantastic choice,
mister marvelous.
it was almost an
adventure bridge
leading us assuredly
to the next level.
it was this big fluffy
cloud in the shape
of a giant lemming—
and it’s got a silver
lining which, if we
chase in our electric
automobile all the way
to albuquerque (and we
do!) we’ll find that
it not only sparkles but
glows in the dark!
it’s midnight in
albuquerque now
and i am having
an epiphany a
catharsis an
aha moment a
breakthrough
that makes it
so obvious to me
how true this
too good that
you are to me
cannot con-
ceivably be.
but even a
dream is okay
with me. so long
as not until after
which do the
walls come
down with a
mighty tumb
ling crash
which nothing
falls through
not even the
other shoe;
the very same
shoe, which, when
on the other foot
is tingling with
unwalkable
sleep having
just awoken from
the sweetest most
floaty of dreams.
but because i
am used to this
by now i’ve got it
and i didn’t
even forget to
stretch it to its
limit to milk
it for as long
as is humanly
and humane
ly impossible.
so. we part
ways in
the desert
do not look
back i owe
you my life
my deepest
thank you
(you may
say it’s ver
boten but i
must not say
so). therefore
my sweet in
delible love
i bid you not
only a fond
adieu, but
I bid it
most ost
entatious
my raging
audacious
and not
barely
audible
[achoo!!]
apercu.
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
mmcmlxxx
fact vs. fiction
i started a letter to martha
midway down market street
this afternoon, while rem-
embering the sequestered
and how my best friend
would say to me (later
in the day): rest assured,
i love to nap. the graffiti
i passed was no longer
the headache that i had
wished away last night
and the night before
last. it wasn’t even
my headache. but then,
how did i get here in
the first place? did
i jump into this rabbit-
hole voluntarily? i do
get side-tracked when
my head is abuzz,
the synapses seem-
ingly snapping away
at my dreams with
their tiny glimmering
fangs. so greedy!
the milk was good
enough for the cereal
this morning (hallelujah,
he types to me — as
always thoughtful and
deliberate — while won-
dering whether it’s
chocolate or straw-
berry flavored, the
milk for which we are
rejoicing...perhaps? i’m
so trying to get inside of
his maneuvering ticks!).
deliberately thoughtful is
something someone like
me can only aspire to
(is this really true? i
can’t help but
figure. also, be-
ing thoughtfully del-
iberate. none of these
are the same thing at
all. and that makes me
love graffiti even more.
or at least enough to dis-
tract me into stopping
and snapping at it with
my little monster — no
offense). i get side-
tracked easily.
dear bff, do not
be alarmed by the
giant-sized laugh-
out-loud emoji
standing next
to me like my
protector, like
my guardian angel.
statistical data
have revealed that
he is none other
than my bff!
but i certainly
didn’t need
to squash any
statistics to be
well aware
of that!

i started a letter to martha
midway down market street
this afternoon, while rem-
embering the sequestered
and how my best friend
would say to me (later
in the day): rest assured,
i love to nap. the graffiti
i passed was no longer
the headache that i had
wished away last night
and the night before
last. it wasn’t even
my headache. but then,
how did i get here in
the first place? did
i jump into this rabbit-
hole voluntarily? i do
get side-tracked when
my head is abuzz,
the synapses seem-
ingly snapping away
at my dreams with
their tiny glimmering
fangs. so greedy!
the milk was good
enough for the cereal
this morning (hallelujah,
he types to me — as
always thoughtful and
deliberate — while won-
dering whether it’s
chocolate or straw-
berry flavored, the
milk for which we are
rejoicing...perhaps? i’m
so trying to get inside of
his maneuvering ticks!).
deliberately thoughtful is
something someone like
me can only aspire to
(is this really true? i
can’t help but
figure. also, be-
ing thoughtfully del-
iberate. none of these
are the same thing at
all. and that makes me
love graffiti even more.
or at least enough to dis-
tract me into stopping
and snapping at it with
my little monster — no
offense). i get side-
tracked easily.
dear bff, do not
be alarmed by the
giant-sized laugh-
out-loud emoji
standing next
to me like my
protector, like
my guardian angel.
statistical data
have revealed that
he is none other
than my bff!
but i certainly
didn’t need
to squash any
statistics to be
well aware
of that!

Tuesday, April 07, 2020
mmcmlxxix
crisis
here is just one example:
mister huffalumpagus [sp?]
where’s my hassendfeffer?
missus huffalumpagus [sp?]
hot diggity dawg!
higgledy-piggledy!
hocus-pocus!
hot dog!
you can go ahead and scratch this one on the face.
here is just one example:
mister huffalumpagus [sp?]
where’s my hassendfeffer?
missus huffalumpagus [sp?]
hot diggity dawg!
higgledy-piggledy!
hocus-pocus!
hot dog!
you can go ahead and scratch this one on the face.
Friday, April 03, 2020
Thursday, April 02, 2020
mmcmlxxvii
murder, mayhem, some sick plot
at which to throw up,
ralph!! time passes. the
velociraptors wake us up. help?!
in love is
no place to be at a time like this!
at which to throw up,
ralph!! time passes. the
velociraptors wake us up. help?!
in love is
no place to be at a time like this!
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
mmcmlxxvi
Probably
who you
say you
are is
mostly
every-
one.
While
some
do, most
people
never
add that
part to
them-
selves.
Admit-
ting the
fault that
is yours
isn’t half
the battle,
but own-
ing up to
one is sub-
tracted up-
on self. Hon-
ing that down
inside even
your great-
est others
is nothing
about vul-
nerability.
It is quite
simply
about
the
truth.
Which,
in all, is
nothing
but a
hole.
who you
say you
are is
mostly
every-
one.
While
some
do, most
people
never
add that
part to
them-
selves.
Admit-
ting the
fault that
is yours
isn’t half
the battle,
but own-
ing up to
one is sub-
tracted up-
on self. Hon-
ing that down
inside even
your great-
est others
is nothing
about vul-
nerability.
It is quite
simply
about
the
truth.
Which,
in all, is
nothing
but a
hole.
Thursday, March 19, 2020
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