PUSHY, GRIPE, BLOAT, ASSET
Month: May 2023
Missing out on the Tooth Fairy
With a
BRISK flick of the string tied round my
TOOTH it comes sailing out, goes off
SLOSH into the bushes, causing me to
SKULK around in the dirt trying to find it again.
The Great Ballooning
TOOTHy grin while scheming big.
SKULK around the hose, fill balloon after balloon. Then,
BRISK walk into house and up the stairs, the bin
SLOSHing all the way. Brother’s back in 20. The look on his face, when he comes up the driveway.
Sweltery Night
SCALDing evening, in a boiling summer.
TABBY sprawled on the vent, but AC conked out.
STYLE of a sweltery night: taking cold baths, and hoping more than a
TEASE comes through the window at midnight: my sweaty kingdom for a breeze.
Dentist Appointment
TOOTH ache getting worse, I
SKULK to the dentist, hoping for a
BRISK visit, but no, they
SLOSH my mouth with water and start drilling.
2023-05-07 words
TOOTH, SKULK, BRISK, SLOSH
Dangerous dancing
I broke my ELBOW
doing the LIMBO. I
need to REVUE my
rhythm and stick TO TEMpo.
Some people will never…
I TEASE our long, sleek, sleepy
TABBY with the excess of creeping
STYLE learned from long years of sneaking up on her. I
SCALD my hand with the newly-made coffee when she reacts.
2023-05-06 words
SCALD, TABBY, STYLE, TEASE
Dueling Imaginations
LIMBO, old invention to help theodicy along, seeing
REVUE of souls passing before anxious inward eyes.
TOTEM and taboo—so, Freud might analyze prior belief, throwing
ELBOW of modernist at prior imagination, in favor of his own.