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The Hospital Cat

...The surgeon
had successfully removed his libido
and fed it to the hospital cat.

Corridors became whispering tubes
for I.V. drip pushing wanderers,
their pale bottoms peering out
like beluga w...

Be Your Own Life DJ

...You built the skills, you have done the work,
Faced every challenge, adjusted to every quirk.
Now comes the fork in the road of life that is yours to face
Grab the microphone of life with a warm e...

Tabled, As Always

...They all took their seats round the table,
It had no head, but all knew where Power sat.
Summoned in haste by Ideology itself,
for the matter was pressing and oddly stressing.

Capitalism sat ba...

An Unforgettable Christmas Day

...

It had been so long since I’d felt loved and wanted.
Then I met John. We basked in our late-in-life romance.
Gone was the loneliness that had left me feeling haunted.
Our relationship proved I...

The Unexpected Plunge of Reginald Cluck

..."What are you all quacking about?" squawked Reginald Cluck,
Peering from his coop, quite out of luck.
A drizzle had started, a timid, soft weep,
While others still snoozed in feathery sleep.

"A...

Vintage Photography

...Images from a cogged box.
A camera reveals
hips and ankles, ribbons
decorously draped
over a contrived modesty.

An artist has added a color tint,
their cheeks are rosy,
their lips red,
a pa...

Muskrats Attitude Makes Us Happy

...Miss Maddie Muskrat mastered Missouri mud
Reveling and rolling in it in a joyful way
Catfish groused that she was mucking up the river
Bass, bluegill and crappie told catfish off

Muskrat makes ...

Sheep Intestine

...Catgut
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Gestures and facial expressions
they were advised to
differentiate between
both fact and fiction
to ensure that everyone was
on the same page
Clear points of ending an...

Why Be Serious

...
What's the big deal
Why do we always have to be serious
Or well adjusted and stuff like that
That's no freaking fun

Why can't we run amok through the streets naked
Tossing flowers to...

The Power of Raw Vegetables

...

Recently my nutritionist – a health
freak if ever there was one – suggested
I eat raw vegetables like cabbage, kale, 
asparagus, brussel sprouts, cauliflower 
and broccoli, all of the crucife...

666 calls

...Move in the Dark with animal Stamina
Annuals Be Jamming Ya, 
More on the most HIgh
More Diatribe about the mote 
In the minds eye 
Far as my eye can see
So far they spying me
So Far the ing co...

A Lonely House in the Steppe - 4

...A Lonely House in the Steppe

A lonely house in the vast, open land,
With an old woman and a sick child at hand.
They are the heroes of this tale I weave,
To you, dear reader, their story I leav...

not to night

...Not tonight my lovely
 
I must stop writing about
The women I met in
 my tumultuous youth
that lasted into middle age
touching the years
of elderliness
I do remember a woman
In Taiwan 
She ...

Vivares

...Death constantly begs for a bit of you,
for just another small bite.

From the crib to the grave
death begs for morsels.
It is a house dog
its purpose
is to guard the larder.

Patched up lim...

Hows Your Dad

...A young man, once a driver,
Accused of killing,
Left unheard
Was thrown into a cell,
They say he got what he deserved
His girlfriend, just a young girl,
Was torn up, and distraught
She sent hi...

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