Where is this? Are we on Mars?
America – just count the stores,
capitalist carnivores.
That so-familiar movie score,
the swish of passing cars.
The city built on Brotherly Love
(Wells Fargo, Fitch and Abercrombie)
at the mercy of Pam Bondi
- was that a person, or a zombie? –
What was Madison thinking of?
Car’s no use: no place to park it.
Arrested at a funeral home.
No gravel pits, no air, no loam
- eat your heart out, Kristi Noem
(Checks Cashed Here, Medina Market)
Can this be noon? It feels like night.
What are these groupings? Hangouts? Dives?
They’re ganglions? They’re human hives?
Squandered talent, wasted lives.
Subway line blocks out the light.
Sidewalk garbage. Mostly men.
That hokey old verbal agility,
“insure domestic tranquillity”
correctional facility
for the heirs of William Penn.
Human beings are detritus
(Lifetime Nails, Olympic Sports):
To clean it up, we use the courts
Perhaps we ought to build more forts
- and thus our id comes back to bite us.
Categories:
kristi, places,
Form: Rhyme
Dear Homeland Security Director No-em
I feel compelled to write you this po-em
They won't let me post bail
Get me out of this jail
I'm not a gang member and want to go ho-em!
My bright and exquisite pink heart-shaped tat
is being mocked by a gangsta in a Maga hat
All hope I must banish
I don't even speak Spanish
My doomed fate is sealed, just another stat
Categories:
kristi, humor,
Form: Limerick
(sing it to the tune of "Cruella DeVil" from Disney's 101 Dalmatians)
There was a Govenor named
Kristi Noem De-Vil Oh
Kristi Noem De-Vil
Her own dog she’ll harm
there's nothing more cru-el
Kristi Noem De-Vil
Kristi Noem DeVil
She hated her puppy Cricket
with wired haired charm
Her own doggy she'll harm
Her own doggy she'll harm
deemed he was useless
like her goat valued less
So, she took the poor pup out
Not sympatico—Not even a pout
She’s made her boss proud
she shouts out loud,
Kristi Noem De-Vil
Kisti Noem De-Vil
with whom she’ll share
the Presidential ticket
Out of her mind with excitement,
chasing all those birds
and having the time of her life
was poor fated Cricket
We need strong leaders who can
do these sorts of messes
She'll bring her own doggy harm
Ranting that it’s just another day on the farm!
The Govenor may be watching too much Netflix
Perchance Wentworth an Australian series
An unhinged system for women's prison
Chicks! Chicks! Chicks!
Chorus...
If anyone out there is looking to offload
an annoying puppy or jerk-face goat
there are many rescues out there
Categories:
kristi, anger, animal, dog,
Form: Lyric
Fastest Person On Earth
https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/gKBfxGKcxP-TKAgevOoOpm-I5ERdVqrgBL1lBb5FLru-QWUe9NwoKe7oYDP-0BrOSqnFph2TEySE1EytyGVwpwKcKBGUBnTPC6znl17sqA=s0-d-e1-ft#http://blog.timesunion.com/kristi/files/2016/08/ellen.jpg
When I wanted to have a great gift
I asked Usain Bolt to give me a lift
Fasted person in world he has been
Might not get another chance again.
Jim Horn
Categories:
kristi, appreciation,
Form: Couplet
Brooke shield,s dawter is a shef named cook!
Detective glass has a son named book!
Quinn Cummings dawter is a girl named zinn !
Mike Nelson,s grandson wants 2 dive in Hudson,s bay ,
Wair no one else has ever bin !
No one else can say wut Blair Warner,s dawter mite du.
If Lauren Garcia,s parachute doent open , she wood be thrue!
Kristi macnichol,s dawter wants 2-B a boy !
Keannu reeves is looking 4 his grandpaw,s killer ,
So he can destroy !
Matt praeger,s dawter wants 2 go 2 space ,
B-cuz ayleins took her dad 2 sum unnoen place !
Daphne Zuniga,s dawter leads a groop called the children of the stars
& sum dude is robbing banks! And he looks like veronica mars !...
Categories:
kristi, nonsense,
Form: Lyric
look it up in the
dictionary by kristi-
authenticity
angel card #22
Categories:
kristi, introspection,
Form: Haiku
Mom, I saw your face today,
looking down on me.
From your picture frame,
you had just turned sweet sixteen.
Even with that smile,
which always reminds me
of your baby girl,
our sister kristi Lee.
I could see that you were sad.
It was there in your eyes.
Your smile failed to reach,
eyes, blue as the sky.
I wish I had been there,
to be your best friend.
We could have talked for hours,
laughed away our cares.
I'm not speaking of,
just when you were in your teens.
But, when I was at home,
is what I really mean.
I know I can't go back
and fix my past mistakes.
But, I wish I could,
for, both our sakes.
Each time we hugged goodbye
and I was off to school,
your eyes smiled at me.
Why is life so cruel?
To make the Angels suffer,
to earn their wings.
Cancer stole your breath.
Yet, your soul did sing.
There's loneliness in me without you.
But, memories of us remain.
At least I can talk to you,
in your antique silver frame.
Now as I look again,
I see the mischievous way,
your eyes enhance your smile.
Mom, I saw your face today.
Entered into John Heck's contest:
"Blink"
Placement: 9th
Categories:
kristi, mother
Form: Rhyme