Monday, August 15, 2022

Remembering George "Goober Gun" Geydon, 4th Grade Schoolyard Terror

Terrible pupil but 
 
Could shoot a viscous, 
Vicious glob of snot aimed 
 
Straight for your amazed face 
Two yards away before you could 
 
Blow your uppity nose once.
 
 

 

Friday, August 12, 2022

Dystopian Eden

Frayed 
 
Skins of serpents rotting 
Apple peels scattered 
 
Over once virgin grounds— 
Fishy smelling whatnot 
 
Holier-than-thou spiels 
Making the usual 
 
Suspect rounds. 
 
 

 

Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Aborted Bang-up Writing Prompt

Jump start 
 
Writing about 
Some vivid childhood 
 
Memory 
 
Involving anything 
That first pops up, 
 
Don’t break too many 
Lines and do not 
 
Punctuate for at least five and see 
What happens; if nothing 
 
Memorable appears, repeat 
One phrase at least 
 
Three times; keep writing 
To wherever 
 
Your often failing memory takes you. 
You may have to repeat 
 
This time-tested procedure 
Countless times before going on 
 
To bigger and better things, say 
Learning how not to 
 
Fade away with a whimper 
But with a bang-bang you're dead only
 
When things can't get any worse.
 
 
 

 

Sunday, August 7, 2022

Well-Meaning Congeries Of Poets Bringing Further Order To The Universal Order Of Things

--on some lines by Rebecca Solnit* 

 
Billions upon billions 
Of stars given 
 
In the universe but how 
Is it we make our own 
 
Constellations? 
 
 
*"The stars we are given. 
The constellations we make."

 

Saturday, July 30, 2022

Resolute Irresolution Of The Wishy-Washy

True as can be 
To ourselves, what it is 
 
That must be unequivocally 
Stated ad infinitum 
 
Is that we are always 
Lying in wait, ever ready 
 
To lie to ourselves 
Again and again, 
 
Till it all comes out white- 
Washed to no end. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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