Sunday, December 15, 2024

Self Control List Poem

 Self control is the girl that snaps your bra

Self control is the ice cube that melts your tooth


Self control is the parakeet that will never forget you 


Self control is the Mercedes Benz that owns and texts you all the time


Self control is the dyslexic gum that shouts MUG when things are quiet


Self control is the bronze fish statue that fries you up


Self control is a space ship you frivolously bought but don’t know how to drive


Self control is the bag of nuts you want to eat but your best friend just bought it and gave it to his girl


Self control is a crane in the distance dangling your soul from a chain


Self control is that phlegm in the back of your throat named glottal


Self control is the 2nd to last exit to Kansas City via Hong Kong


Self control is a draw bridge that snapped after the paper clip fell out


Self control ended this poem…

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Every day I drive by the Fun House Pizza

there is a
sign saying
“See you in heaven Audrey”
& now
I’m certain
She is a
Carnival saint
Sprinkling the
Good times
Right on down
Into our hungry brains
Like
Magic
Parmesan cheese.


New Poetry Book 2024 - The American Enigma is You

 


Thursday, November 21, 2019

anonymous?

rumor
has
it
that
the internet
heroes
of
covert binary
are
chugging
further down
the
deep,
dark web
selling
the sweat
of
jesus
&
the devil's
chewed wod
of black gum.

Friday, March 28, 2014

rooftop freedom

my boy
miles has found
his latest thrill
in sending
pockets of
stretchy,
colorful
wrist bands onto the roof
to
commune with the birds,
have higher altitude air
and feel what it's really
like to have a good view.

instead of being smashed against skin all day,
barely over waist level high
and having to be active all day long.

now,
they can just unfurl their tiny
rubbery souls in the
new sunlight
as

a big
dude with
a fading scalp,
bit of a belly,
dirtied glasses,
slippers and
bad breath
tries
fetch the
bracelets down
with
a long
branch trimmer on a

ladder
that will
ultimiately
bring
peace to the

9-year old's
crumbled

bracelet
universe
of
calm.