Booze
The kitten chases imaginary rodents
across the carpet.
The cat sleeps and dreams
of wingless birds.
My wife whirls and spins and soars
at modern dance class.
I remain behind
to tackle the obvious.
-- Fabian McCarthy, Jr.
Toy Spiders
I bought my new love two toy spiders
She wound them up and pressed their bellies
They fornicated upon her wall
ETCH-ETCH-ETCH-ETCH-ETCH-ETCH
It was electric, better than television
My new love smiled and tweaked my nose
"Look how the small one is smoking a cigarette,
Look how the big one is leaving to buy her a present..."
-- Glen Armstrong
A Little Awe for Unskimmed Milk
Wrestling lions, squint-eyed
searches for The Center,
smouldering heretics whose last
wish is a car-wash in Carmel
with free ice-cream cones and
affordable Guides to Who's Who
in Haiku, some sense of awe
for unskimmed milk.
-- Wayne Hogan
The Process
"Write," she demanded.
"I can't."
She pulled out her pistol and carefully aimed it at me.
"Write!"
Even then, I was unable.
She proceeded to pistol-whip my buttocks.
Ideas came to me.
-- Evan Griffith
That-a-Way
roaches play shortstop
slugs lace up
umbrellas bicker
rivers wear summer
hats, and Eunice?
- Eunice leaves
for Grand Rapids.
flies chew tobacco
fleas cook spaghetti
dump rats debate
the stats
in economic textbooks
- is that Linda
looking for a bus?
an arrow with a note
rips through
the plasterboard
the bed smells strange
both legs shake as
- Sally takes her IBM
out West.
on the dusty urn
the android peels
an apple from his brain
and she's gone too--
--the travel agent,
- years ago,
to puny Portugal.
-- Jack Shadoian
I Yam What I Yam
My mama was a Madonna
and my papa was a Rollin' Stone.
Who do you think you are?
After we fall in love
'neath the Schwarzenegger poster
we use the last of the
Princess Di soap-on-a-rope,
happy as Lizzendick.
Vannalike, you lick your lips,
turn to me and sigh,
I used to feel so bad and lonely
like a hairball in a holy place,
shitcan among the stars,
till I saw there's an
Elvis imitator in all of us.
My life was different after that.
-- William Merricle
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