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.

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.