Author: Mike Crowl

TUTOR of mine, pardon my
BRAWL, I mean scrawl, which I wrote in a cloud of excess.
EXALT my marks to an A+ I beg,
PRIOR to my deadline. I’m in your thrall, and thee I will bless. 

CLANG! the kids are home. Peace no longer reigns as now
ERUPTs the homework pain, the refusal to read the tome.
QUIET has gone like a stolen garden gnome. Vainly I
SAUTĖ my interrupted meal, my late lunch, midst a teenage velodrome.

Back in the day, the hooker in the SCRUM’s
middle, was liddle – as I was, and BESET
by the blokey blokes around me; SMALL,
with bleeding nose, I hung between the props, SADLY.      

BRACE yourself for the finest
FILET in town. Nowhere else on the
GLOBE can you find meat of such quality. I
SWORE on my father’s grave only yesterday, that I would always tell the truth!

Close your craving mouth there, BUDDY,
I hate to see a grown man DROOL – a
DONUT’s not much about to write home, so
gRASP Your hunger buds, don’t be a fool.

I can remember the wonderful days of stretched-out CinemaSCOPE,
when one actor might be on the far left, the other on the far right.
There was time when spreading out your actors was a kind of GENRE,
but when TV started showing these elasticated MOVIEs
you could wind up watching a blank set with voices coming from either side,… Continue reading Empty space

The
GNOME opened the gnome-sized door to the
METER reader, who first went red as a new-laid
BRICK, and then by turns pale, wan and
ASHEN, before tripping over his shoes, (made of suede).

RADAR, a M.A.S.H. soldier seldom
ELATEd, was elated less on seeing his miniscule
STEAK, the first for a year, disappear in a
FOAMY cloud of marked-down military soap.        

Heading, yacking, rolling towards DEBAR
I scarce my mind in order to order had BEGUN
When I heard before me? – back o’ me? – some fibreglass CLINK:
Me mate – that son of a gun! – was having a drink in a bottomless KAYAK.

OMBRÉ sky blends blue, gray, white,
TODAY blends evening into night. My
MECCA, midnight, my day’s delight, my shift
WEDGEd midway between dark and bright.