Long Hot sauce Poems

On an early morning just before school
My tummy is churning my head hurts too
My feet are cold my forehead is hot
I have a runny nose and a tongue with blue dots

“Mom come quick!” I helplessly...

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We are human being with a soul
We were taken from the North and South Pole
And left in a basket at the flagpole
If all the relics in history were unfold
You would discover that the real threshold
Is...

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There is a new mythology emerging, 
Howling from the hind end of the pack, 
Scorching the composted leavings 
Of established orthodoxy as a pillar of flame 
Showing the way for true rock & rollers. 
It’s...

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Each English-speaker knows that funner means more fun than fun,
   and weirder means more weird than weird. And yet nary a one
of "proper" dictionaries has neologism words -
   the editors must...

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"Mi primo" means my cousin in Spanish.
He calls me his "primita"- little cousin.
This is the story of how mi primo
Taught me about the meaning of bread;
Of the meaning of tortillas...
He and I are exchanging languages...

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A is for Australia, full of weird beasts,
Where even the cute ones can bite you at least.

B is for Brazil, where football is life,
And people dance samba with joy (and no strife).

C is for Canada,...

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Nutty grandpa president
is talking crazy uncle Donald again
His little Chucky thumbs
is tapping epithet tweet nonsense
Batty grandpa’s been 
grumpily sucking 
on the hate hot sauce bottle
stashed in his KKK closet
Now he’s sporting a Commander-in-Chief cap,
dressed in...

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When I write, it's as though my thoughts become the words that shift into armor as they ascend from the depths of my mind and safely enclose me. The pen, clenched in my hand acts...

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I've made some mistakes but they only helped me to grow 
I allowed you to see some things I didn't want to show
I was on the playing field, but now I need a new game...

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when upon grasping in the fridge
for a bottle of hot sauce
amidst the myriad of styles
collected for the taste,
her/his hand grasped hold of a
teriyaki hot sauce,
something of which s/he him/herself
thought that s/he’d created
one early eve,
upon returning...

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I should eat healthy, I really should!  But life is too short for that.  Food, food, food, 

it chases away the blues, it brings comfort to the soul.  So here is a...

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I Love Food Contest
Sponsor: Lewis Raynes


Yummy steak fajitas with a pound of sour cream,
   along with hot salsa and many tortilla chips, I do wish,
      chicken quesadillas are...

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Women over 50 are Invisible
(according to one source)

But…isn’t that a superpower?

Please don’t notice me
wearing the same black leggings
three days in a row
Content to sit on my couch
trash t.v., pumpkin pie breakfast
Don’t listen to me
imitate British...

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I took a trip through hell.
Not to visit but to settle a debt.
Actually, I just visited a different part of hell,
One I wasn’t familiar with,
Having spent a great deal of my life
In a hell opened...

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Happy Birthday my Dearest Son.
I hope your day will be Awesome! 
I know you're sitting up there sharing all
your favorite foods.
Setting up your buffet,  with wings, pizza, salsa, 
chips galore, your red hot sauce...

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he used one gallon of
what he called batch liquor( rye mash)
he soaked ground pecan, vanilla beans, cinnamon sticks
lavender, mint leaves, dried hot peppers,.
he soaked it for almost three months and strained it.
he mixed it with...

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8/28/16


So damn many thoughts
And plots

Oppurtunity knocks
Around the clock

East and West, Biggie and Pac
True legends that will always remain at the top
Never going to be forgot

Trust me no time to stop
Get after that guap

Protect yourself and...

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Most days it's so peaceful when Kimmy leaves home,
And the dust settles briefly, felled leaves never roam
On the floor where they mold now (till she's home again)
If not crunched in my passing, for some there's...

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Some people eat them plain, some with hot sauce
They buy no matter what the cost
They have swept the nation, have become a craze
If not on the shelves, customers call it a disgrace
It is said that...

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Nomenclature

Nomenclature robed in wealth of words 
The hot sauce that makes the tongue hurry
I am the live in the lively garment of merry
Like a hare I burrow to the worlds.

Esther had a dream last night
She...

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Her name came from her native heritage from the Navajo Tribe
I got this story because I offered her a bribe
She works at McDonald's as a shift leader
Her boyfriend, dropped out of school after the 6th...

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It is worn, patched, and tattered, frayed about the edges.  It has at times offered me adrenal ascendency, scared me out of my wits, challenged me to act, or to be still.  Its...

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I once knew a boy named Billy
I thought he was originally from Chile
Mostly ‘cause he loved his hot sauce and chili
Toting everywhere his jar of piccalilli

It turns out Billy was really the local hillbilly
I should...

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I was burned by my burrito 
Just a simple snack for me yo 
I was burned by my burrito, my burrito

My hunger pangs were panging
My tummy it was aching
I figured a quick snack 
Would end...

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Grey Dissociation 
GREY - - You can barely SEE through the haze of the dissociative fog shrouded in heavy, BLACK, looming, doubt. 
GREY - - Listen to the SOUND of almost nothing, like you’re under...

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