UNDUE bills don’t bother me, don’t make me
PALER than before. I snap my fingers at them,
QUELL not my heart, and take no notice of their
GUISE as bills that truly quell, empale, because they’re due.
Month: June 2023
Doubts
QUELL my doubts that come in the
GUISE of faint praise or
UNDUE criticism, a
PALER reflection of real justification.
Guilt
GUISE of hope falls, even momentarily, leaving faces
PALER from the fearful launderer, who demands
UNDUE loyalty from all and threatens to
QUELL uprising with prejudice.
2023-06-07 words
QUELL, GUISE, UNDUE, PALER
Disorder
TIGHT as the night is black,
SHOWY as a flowery border,
BRICK-thick as Oamaru stone, is
ARDOR without order.
Thirst
BOOZE, inward fire of an inward frailing, yielding view
ASKEW on self, on life, all blurred by buzz, curved by thirst.
REUSE crutch, drink each day’s addled quant of time outside of time.
PAYEE: mad, sad habit. Payer: liver, or the thread through it all, or the better moments never met.
GUILT–theologians argue its inheritance, moderns banish it from
BIRTH.… Continue reading Thirst
Brazilian Steak
BRICK fire pit becomes grill,
TIGHT with cuts I’ve never heard of before,
SHOWY display of gluttonous indulgence.
ARDOR of meat and conversation lovers sets the scene.
Advice
GUILT, grace, gratitude:
BIRTH of new life (!)
QUOTH the catechism.
EVADE the rot of rote repetition, my son.
Contentment
STUNG by the promise of a life overly
SHAPEd by ambition, he learned the hard way:
QUAIL in the hand is better than a newspaper
BLURT or two in the bush
2023-06-06 words
BRICK, TIGHT, SHOWY, ARDOR