CLINK, the seashells fall into the jar,
BEACH toys and Coronas replace
BEVEL and cooler water on this
ELFIN getaway with the kids.
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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.
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.
Disappointment
CLUED into mom’s hiding spots I could
STAVE my hunger by raiding the M&M stash, and I
CRANE my neck into the upper cabinet and …
EMPTY.
Terry
CHOCK full of nonsensical aphorisms, adages, and
MAXIMs, Terry drove people crazy with
LOOPY wisdom like “The early bird catches the football” and
“ERODE to nowhere is better than erode to Baltimore.”
Root Canal
MOLAR more painful than yesterday? Maybe.
MARRY thoughts of dental torture with playing hooky,
OPTICs that no one will see through as my
DROLL dentist makes jokes about drilling into nerve endings.
A satirical poem about nuclear armament.
ATOLL absolutely ballin’ spot for thermonuclear explosion.
SAUCE it up with mushroom cloud and radioactive contamination,
BROOK no rivals for Cold War R&D as meanwhile kids
CRAWL under desks to practice surviving the end of the world.
Influencers
ANNOY me with your influencer vibes, why don’t you?
FLUSH with cash from targeted ads, I see you there sprawling on that
ISLET with the yacht in the background and the champagne in the foreground,
AWAKE with the knowledge that you, truly, are influencing.TM
Sanctification
GRACE turns the heart like a
LATHE turns a metal block,
HENCE something rigid into something shaped,
STONE to flesh, glory to glory.