Two Poems (November 20, 2009. Issue 11)
Humans don't come with hang tags
No one is born inspected by.
Nor with mouth covers that say; "remove before flight".
There are no returns; all births are final.
No manuals of ownership, or lists of ingredients--
our fats are variable and variegated.
We delist one another like red #2.
Who isn't best when used by.
All must prove worthy of their weight;
we single salt gluts of mates, come without
test kits for nitrites and nitrates.
We have no pinch point safety warning paint,
no headboard signs "watch for abrupt manuevers,
excessive speed, mid coitus rollover".
We tumble and fold, bleaching
by friction; we hang ourselves out to dry.
No irony instructions; treat each other
like one-time wash and wear.
Bio-degradeable, we hazards still try
to sticker with: this end, this side, up.
Our contents are always under pressure.
Someone holds the hose pointed away
from his or her face.
Someone lights a fuse, and steps back.
Imagine yourself elsewhere
Imagine yourself Ostrich eyed
pretty prey
long leggedly sprinting
to safety.
Imagine yourself other sized
sighted short
napoleonic nemesis of everything
reaching up.
Imagine yourself organized
partitioned
a crime, a religion
edged neat.
Imagine yourself ostracized
sent outside
the lime in the coconuts
now, regroup.
Imagine yourself
pasta fagioli.
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Bookends (March 5, 2009. Issue 1)
Book. (N) A set of pages (bound)
along one side and encased between
(protective) covers.
I went to the bookstore
almost bought O'hara.
Does he know this?
I pondered Pound.
It's all I can do these days.
Over here
Joe Cool and Yellowfinch
chronicle the Red Baron
but don't know a damn thing about
Linux.
Some-body
wrote a book about how greedy
Harvard has become.
Good for him!
Could Beethoven
run a floor buffer?
Pascal, cut his own hair?
Shakespeare, script his own death?
RECIPE
One green corporation
One well marinated c.e.o.
Add one young c.p.a.
A smattering of indecent proposals
Wrap in four pages of numbers
Heat for five years
Serves one. Cold.
I'm trying to read myself
into a racepacedzimbabweananecdotalstupor
I need a book about tourettes.
And we should all be lucky enough
to get ALZHEIMERS
and forget the pain of
confusion
confusion
I found a book of
tricks
on how to build
unabridged book bridges.
Sedition: The unextinguishable match.
Where can I find a comparo
between a firefighters diploma
and his third degree of knowledge burn ?
All I find are pictures and instructions
on hundreds of knots
I'D BETTER SECURE MY MIND !
Or buy another book to send spars flailing again.
STILL I marvel
at the brilliance of stupid genious.
How to make money writing books
(How to save money by not buying books.)
Writers writing books on writing.
Okay, that's just stupid !"
(Thank you, Will Smith)
No books on
overreading or
Terri Schaivo
They're writing that one now.
Periodicals. Monthly (.)
Psychology today
knows what I'm thinking.
What about tomorrow ?
I want to place a bet.
Photography today keeps reminders.
ALPACA QUARTERLY
This issue: The thorax
Next issue: The hind quarter
Do survivalist magazines tell you to
use the pages for toilet paper ?
No, they leave that for poets.
UNDERWHELMED I
booked next door to K-Mart
to look at "Durable Goods".
Bought nothing
Picked up a local housing guide on the way out
FREE ! TAKE ONE!!
I might move south
where it's safer from
meteors
and swiss made atomic clocks.
Come visit.
I'll be reading about the reading
habits of Marty Feldman
while I wait for God
to throw the book at us
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