Month: December 2022

Bullying

aBUSED I was as a kid, I was never
AGILE enough to get out of the bully’s way. A
MINTY was the upside, a sweetener, once I’d
DRIED my eyes and wiped my nose.

[I just couldn’t bring myself to use the US spelling of BUSSED…BUSED looks like FUSED, to me!]

Bus Riders Persevere

MINTY or cinnamon gum? The only diversion while
BUSED through the city on ride so slow the paint
DRIED many time over. Bus riders persevere, aren’t
AGILE; they know time shapes them, not the reverse.

Refugee of the Christmas Wars

HOLLY boughs–chance sight as I flee, and slop through
MARSH. Refugee of the Christmas wars, I fly panicked to my
EXILE. Which my side? I can’t remember: Holly bespeaks joy of holiday
,
while thought of Christmas cheers me. Wasn’t there a war, though?

Fatherhood

‘Are you both soch coddly EVOKEs?’ –
meaning Ewoks – THEIR
mispronouncing DADDY
night on night requests. His twin sons’ PUPILs
sparkle.

Malice’s Invention

COVEN: facile conspiracy theory: occult women causing
AFOOT in the land: plagues, drought, crazy youths.
ENEMY so easily manufactured, but real world hard to grasp.
MIGHT: so often channeled through malicious invention, like what is invented about covens.