Eek baby eek
Violet velvet heel Eek baby eek Snap your fingers like a rubber band Crack your knuckles like you’re on a chain gang Eek baby eek Drop your brief case Tell me a story Loosen your tie Straighten your nose Lovely winter Eek baby eek Take a toot from the snoot The emancipator shoehorn I’m tired [...]
Read Morethe motion of bodies
If there are two unknown bodies, neither the attracted nor the attracting body impresses a whole force, and generates a whole velocity proportional to the time given the time. A short time to describe among themselves; the motion of bodies in resisting mediums. If the bodies meet with contrary motions there will be an opposite [...]
Read MoreEnumerated
He was many numbers. 412-43-8516. 220-203-4895. 2397 (4B). 45000. He lived in a world of numbers. Ever morning he awoke at 7 and left by 8, left 2397 (4B) driving A1U4-E56 along I-95 to 6571 on 6th. By 9 he had taken the elevator to 10 and started. He sold numbers. 220-297-1315 wants 3000 of [...]
Read MoreUnmitigated Cheer
Violets. Violets, and roses. Flowers happy, flowers bright; flowers -casket! flowers DEATH! deathdeathdeathdeath! Puppies. Puppies, frollicking. Frollicking dogs, big frollicking -guard dogs? frollicking DEATH! deathdeathdeathdeath! Children. Children, playing ball, children playing happily, happily playing ball in the -street! playing ball with DEATH! deathdeathdeathdeath! Sunshine. (skin cancer!) clouds? (depression!) rain; (suicide!) high of 85, (cremation!) low [...]
Read MoreOde to Myrtle
O marvelous Myrtle I burble your name it gurgles and warbles and bubbles so gamely gargling growling and grumbling amazing rolling around all the vowels that abound in the sonorous sound of your wonderful name. O mystical magical myrtlous Myrtle I’d beg or I’d borrow or furtively furgle or burgle the gollup to wallop the [...]
Read MoreIndiana
Driving through Indiana is like driving on a treadmill. You get nowhere, and after a while you start to zone and forget what normal walking is like, so you get off and feel like some kind of awkwardly shaped waterfowl gliding around the room until you almost hit a concrete barrier or the flashing lights [...]
Read MoreThe world ends thirteen times consecutively
one heart thirty six and a half years away from scheduled retirement takes early leave two i’m sorry we can’t see each other anymore three the sun unexpectedly explodes four concentrated and constant contamination reduces arable water to flammable sludge and leaves the summer breeze with the consistency of sandpaper choking the leather lunged winners [...]
Read MoreThe Grim Reaper Is Lazier Than I Am
What is there worth writing about but lazy death? So inept, so unpunctual and mixed up. He came too early, say lovers or friends who are not in the will and have not been secretly pondering where he has been these last humorless years. Stovepipes, perhaps, or flash photography; fresh paint or icy slush streaked [...]
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