Hilarious Prose Poems

Today is International Women’s Day.

A day to celebrate women’s rights but those rights and freedoms are under attack and the wounds appear to be self-inflicted....

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..continued from Part 1,


They're spraying whatever the hell they need, 
To inhibit our solidarity, 
to choke us out with noxious painful coughing fits, that rasp...

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I sat at the bar sipping my lemon and lime
He came over pint in hand and sat on the stool next to mine.

“Haven’t seen you...

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The night, it's night
              permanently...
       ...

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OF APOSTOLIC CHALLENGE

		I know the mask you wear
		is not you;
		nor are the hilarious snorts,
		silly giggles, and screams:
		the real you—beautiful
		soul—earlier reflected itself…

		A mask can not reflect
		what...

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The beautician frowns in the mirror.
She stops combing.
I think she has found a tick.
I get them frequently. I live in the country.

Why would you have...

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Jacob was a young boy who looked like an angel.
I did not know him until he was nine.
But I could tell he must have been...

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Three cousins who know how to sew
Are cutting and talking and laughing.
Telling stories that make no sense to grown ups
But are hilarious to each other.

Stitch....

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My husband is torn.
He wants a clean house.
But he loves our big puppy.
The chewingest dog in the whole dang town.

He says I guess I should...

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In the early dawn, the loud barking of my dog
Woke me up;
I arose and went to the door leading out onto
The veranda;
I adjusted the blinds...

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We come together as a family; my friends and me.
Each bringing what we said we would.
Two or three bringing extra things that are duplicates.
Six people,...

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They came in wild, two little boys, excited to be here.
I am the school counselor, many try to get in.
I accept all who ask and...

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I sneeze, and everyone follows suit.
Curiouser and curiouser.
I laugh and half of them laugh.
Two of them pointedly laugh louder after the rest of us quit...

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He was the weird one, the odd one, the one the family laughed about.
He heard them laughing, and it hurt when he was a boy.
By...

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Cough David Cough
Giorgio smiled as he imagined it
Hanging a bright orange plastic glove next to David’s face
Serves him right for being a god, he thought.

The...

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