Long Rammer Poems

Murk Rammer froze as he felt the nuzzle
of a snub-nosed thirty-eight’s deadly muzzle.
Louis The Retch poked it into his back.
“The jig’s up, Rammer. I ain’t cuttin’ no slack.”

Murk had been tricked by a double-crossing dame,
alias...

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Far adrift from the shores of myself or anything else,
wind and current don't play any favorites
they just do their own silent-timeless- 
unravelling dance.

Whittling days into wormwood,
making friends with a chatty gull
or is it just waiting...

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Used to be the question mark

On top of a full stop

Until needed inverted commas

To require an explanation mark

To highlight an apostrophe

So as to prove

A firm grip on grammar

All present and correct every
punctuation point, apostrophe, 
inverted...

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the kids are going nuts
one almost keeled over

one inquires about the whereabouts
of the large-caliber pipe pistol

one gives the spheroid
a handshake and hug

the arm like an tartarean
eclipse with a surreptitious

star-nosed mourning
mole on the end of it

one...

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Bless me with enough smooches, 
That I may confess the blunt honesty of thy will. 
Bless my heart with painting in thy words, 
To such extent you know my testimony is your grace. 

Enough is...

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