PURGE thoughts of fancy restaurants,
OPINE on simpler dates like
LILAC meadows, golden sunsets,
CHEAP for your wallet, priceless to your girl.
Author: Kyle Edwards
Resting Spot
SLATE smooths out over the years when used as a
BENCH for so many tired butts on this trail steep enough to
QUASH many a dream of a fun outing with the family,
FOGGY memories of the trail being easier (or bodies being younger).
How I woke up in a Piggly Wiggly
INCUR a hefty fine for getting
DRUNK with a witches’
COVEN and waking up
THERE in the dairy aisle of the Piggly Wiggly.
COVID
CRUEL season when we were all
LIVID with THOSE OTHER PEOPLE and
SPIED out their nauseous social media declarations, toxic
BLEND of self righteousness, scorn, and fear.
Christmas Victims
COVEY in a pear tree makes a
BREAK for other climes,
AWASH in hope that this year a true love can’t
STALK them the first day of Christmas.
Bad Vacation
WHOSE idea was this anyway?
SUPER bad vibes floating in a rickety
SHARK cage to witness the
FABLEd Great White mating season.
Murder in the Particle Accelerator
“ALIBI checks out, Inspector. His wife was in Vegas.”
“REACH for unexplored possibilities, mon ami. We’re not seeing the obvious.”
ACRID case, the mustachioed Belgian thinks to himself.
QUARK scientist struck down by microscope: smells like rotten red herring.
Jingle
“SUGAR makes it yummy,
FIBRE helps your tummy”:
DITTY for kids’ cereal by local
TRIAD who never got a call back.
Stories
COUCH bears the weight of a thousand stories,
APRON passed down generations, hung up while
BROTH from long forgotten provenance simmers: all just a
TITHE of tithes of the stories to tell.
Bad Buffalo
BISON playing Quordle, sees the word
BOTCH, and does a double take thinking it was a word
ABHORrent to the bovine community, and with a
GLINT in his deeply black eye he ponders transgressive obscenity.