Best On A Short Leash Poems

No more babies to make.
We're all done my wife says.
Get the scissors.
We have 3 of our own
All under 5,
4 total.
Why look so nostalgic towards babies...

Read more of this work...

I don't know what came over me that day - an instant of weakness after years of resistance, I suppose.

My beaming spouse leads me, a...

Read more of this work...

They watch him like a Broad-wing Hawk
In all his comes and goes
He invades their every thought 
Bugs them to the bone

He delights in the slip...

Read more of this work...

I'm the good bad cop,
I'm good at being bad
My partner is the bad good cop,
he's bad at being good
We make a good team,
we put a...

Read more of this work...

Entrapped with Wires

Hands bound behind my back

Enslaved

The wires go on for miles 
 
Covering every inch of our city

Vibrating with electricity. Humming excitement 

Our happy...

Read more of this work...

So thankful to know the love of my sweet little boy 
He's certainly nothing short of a miraculous bundle of joy 
Like his sister, he's...

Read more of this work...

I collect the money each and every night 
Occasionally check with the Johns to ensure the service was alright 
A smack or punch in the...

Read more of this work...

DIAPER RASH

They took me out again
on a short leash
bag ready
just in case.

I had been trained
not to go
in the house,
to be subservient
to my masters,

repeat only
what I’d
been...

Read more of this work...

In my eyes 
You are the only prize of the flesh ive ever wanted

So warm 
And wanton
Yet numb until you’ve heard my voice

A soft sound...

Read more of this work...

He held on to your frail love
with a velvet iron fist
Scarlet finger imprints ... bruised bracelet
on your wrist
showed you the depression bends
of his obsessive love
How...

Read more of this work...

Incorrigible Recalcitrant - Doppelganger (mine)

Ala Goofus and Gallant 
highlights my diametrically 
divergent alter egos
always the reserved 
obedient docile boy
afeared to stray outside narrow

circumscribed comfort zone
figuratively...

Read more of this work...

All the big dogs out barkin' their song
older cats strollin' just playin' along
hipsters out mellowin' chill for the day
jipsters shout yellin' pronouncin' their trade
the young...

Read more of this work...

I'm not much attached to this body,
it feels like it's on a short leash
while the brain drags it around
like a reluctant old dog.

Long cantankerous years
have...

Read more of this work...

"Cat got your tongue?"
-- a grinning Cheshire to a vast clowder of feminist felines

*   *   *

Domesticated pu*sies tamed to iron, wash,...

Read more of this work...

...You have a right to trial by jury,
and a presumption of your innocence,
you have a duty to respect other’s rights,
not commit crimes against women and...

Read more of this work...