salade aux fines herbes
my cohabitant chops a carrot, one of three.
“do you want any help?”
“i don’t think so…
“it’s taking a long time.”
“no rush.”
..
the making of a salad is a salad in itself, with
the exotic ingredients of music selection,
arrangements of foodstuffs, raising of blinds,
reminiscences and sighs.
health is in the air,
health of direction,
of attention and presence, of
dressing and undressing and dressing again
and the soothing flow of rinsewater.
ab
a square plus b square equals c square
for all right triangles with a and b
being the two adjacent sides joined at 90°
and c as the hypotenuse.
a bit of thought tells us that a and b
make a nifty half a rectangle
the whole of which is of area a times b
and the half of which is of area (ab)/2.
so ab is twice the area of a right triangle.
it is also the bookends of ahab
and also the muscle abdominal
and the rhyme scheme of the first two lines
of a shakespearean sonnet.
and when we move on (and plenty of us want to)
the place where we wereay be marked
absum
abesse
afui
afitus.
serum
jab or imbibe or pop pop if a gelcap
Hellsap™ might make you into something new
stereochemical potion chimerical
notional miracle’s essence of true
aerosolized for an inhaled transmission
portioned for timed release side effects minimal
may disappoint if expecting cold fission
it’s ineffective but hey it’s not criminal
the towers fell in 2001
and a clueless tonedeaf
monopoly player said hey
my tower is now the tallest
and he was later to become a
cahooter of a man called bonesaw
and cahooter of the genocidal net&yahoo
and cahooter and releaser of fraudsters and rioters
..
he will not be let to unleash his lies at the site
nor will the felonious former mayor
who seemed so swiftly heroic
twenty-five bloody
years ago
draft dodger wearing five stars/eider
antifa surging through the capitol/depressed
tariffs saving consumers money/imbibe
blood from a shotup ear/peachfuzz
trickledown/upend
I’ve been working on a larger-scale drawing for a couple of weeks now.
It is ambitious and sloppy at this stage. When I draw quickly it is more improv then plan, but the several acrostics do impose a sequence and a structure.
I am enjoying the different compositions that occur when I crop off details and photoedit them. They seem to evoke unsolved mysteries.
Even when the drawing is finished, the mystery of what is beyond the border will remain. That’s Life, my friends.
the hunger problem is sickening, especially here, with
a view in this mall of a fat man eating a dunkdonut
covered with chocolate
and filled with “kreme,”
with cookies and cinnamon rolls
and pretzels and movie snacks
and soft-serve ice cream and ghirardelia and pockpucky
all visible from a single vantage point
while on your phone cate blanchett
mandy Patinkin and his wife
and any number of other wellfed celebrities urge
giving to the hungry and oppressed–my god,
they mean well
and they meant well fifty years ago too
but it is just like the pills we well-meaningly take
that make our numbers better
but treat only symptoms.
please, whatever demigods may be,
stop solving the sub-problems,
and SOLVE. THE. PROBLEMS.
in the name of mother Earth i pray.
amen.
a heckler hit me with a three-inch pickle.
it was no big dill.
..
I sing the bawdy eclectic
fandangooey and mystic
applying a styptic
along the ecliptic
unhoping encounters be fistic.
..
if mick jagger were a geologic unit of measure
he would be size mick.
..
amazed that my friend avery
was spiceracked without reason,
i last-name him zing
and here is the thing:
to avery zing there’s a season.
..
dudley moore had acne.
moore’s the pitty.
..
call me mu
but not a cow,
for I love u
and y, and howe.
Whistles & Thistles
The plant & noise doth both bestow
Harsh histamines & hinted Death
If tax’d & made a shibboleth–I
Stand & sweat & WOW it shows
The Thistle & the Whistle met
Laconic’ly & Time’ll tell
Engagement & the random fête
Sustain & fill creative wells
drone delivery
some drones deliver candy
some drones
deliver death some
drones deliver narc
o
pan
& fentanyl
& meth some drones record
a festival
& then
a falling bomb that makes
a mist of dna
of granddaughter &
mom
some
drones
create an image
in brightlight
dot array
at halftime
with no scrimmage
and make the crowd
hooray
the cause of strife’s elusive
but it’s
SO often
G R E E D
..
deliver drones from evil
and think upon
this screed
..
deliver drones from evil
and have them fill
a need
One with Clay, Image and Text 