Ode To My Bicycle Bell
Chromed clam Flying over pavement Clutching my handle Like an unsteady bar fly Singing Your pearl A chirpy chime Ding a ling.
Uncool About It
Person A observes Person B Doing something questionable Person A (who witnessed the action) Either doesn’t care Or tacitly condones the action As inferred by Person A’s lack of corrective action Or condemnation Of Person B Thus Person B (who did the questionable action) Thinks they understand How Person A thinks Or feels Due a … Read moreUncool About It
I Can’t Help Myself
The gardener’s yard Overgrown and weedy In a plumber’s home The faucets are leaky The sheriff’s kid Dealing drugs after school The crossing guard Is a jaywalking fool The doctor who smokes And drinks like a fish The lamp-bound genie Can’t grant himself a wish The master jewel thief Has never been engaged The Fox … Read moreI Can’t Help Myself
Watch Your Upright Bipedal Stride
Goats cling And clatter Across the face of a dam 15 stories high for a lick of salt. I muster my strength To sit up And saunter To the kitchen For another doughnut. Over time all Apex predators Eventually Lose their grip.
Slow Flying
Pumping legs Faster faster faster Muscles burning Near collapse Then glide Lean out over handlebars Flying Then slower And slower Willing the bike to coast until The lip of the hill And somehow It works again. Low flying Slow flying Under the radar Then as now Such fun.
Don’t Be Nervous
It couldn’t be easier Just act natural Be yourself Still It’s hard Not to feel This is a trick.
Striped Compatriots
Fugitives Pause To salute their struggle From tyranny From barking dogs From broccoli.
Party Buoy
Every glass refilled Before you come up for air The promise of Drunk Divers. Florida America’s unnatural tail Breeding would-be Franchise owners Each dreaming of being the next Big Boy. A dozen DUIs Cost him his boating license So Carl turned his drinking problem Into a drinking solution Drunk Divers.
Inside Joke
Dad played at being sad Complaining he’d lost his cornbread. Sis looked at Brother To see if he knew where the cornbread went. Brother smiled, having seen Dad’s performance before Hiding the cornbread under his hat. Mom eventually learned to love this joke Giggling children made it funny Even to baby.
The Proclivity of Things
A DuMont Teleset Replacing their Threadbare radio Feels like The future has arrived. The empty box A spaceship A submarine A portal to another world Waiting for the trash man. Get more out of life With television By DuMont. But one day When the tubes and wires fail It’s just another box Destined for the … Read moreThe Proclivity of Things