MIDGE, you bitey speck from planet’s teeming fauna,
WRACKing larger peers, by stealth of smallness taking nips.
SONAR pings–you sucker, now meet your terminal bite:
FURRY, blind phantom of the night bats it wings, is on your six.
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Titan Snores
APNEA autonomically belies body’s control,
TITAN, self-styled, can’t decree away,
NINNY, (is that you, Titan?), can’t knit up the raveled sleeve when he’s subject.
GAUNT we all, under circumstance, health and numbered days finally outside our grasp.
Polyphemous
GAUNT shepherd dutifully counts his sheep, no
NINNY or sluggard is this mountain’s
TITAN, but lately he’s had
APNEA like No Man.
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What is a ‘ramen’ anyway?
BASTE the ramen? The
RAMEN, don’t baste. The taste is
STAID and woody. That
WOODY taste is such a waste.
Ramen Days
RAMEN days, eking by, not feeling it. Then
STAID life, yards, mortgages, or wishes for such.
WOODY ambition can arise to hike among trees, go camping, be simple. Most days, though, you
BASTE, cook in your own need for richer flavors, bar for contentment rising.
Norwegian Wood
RAMEN noodle packets scattered by
WOODY veneer paneling the color of
BASTE you put on chicken: keep yourself
STAID and composed as you walk through.
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A Place in the Story
UTILE, to get away, sit by fireplaces’s
DYING embers, recount your own story to yourself: vast, you a small player in it, yet
ENDOWed with role and place among the characters. Why
SULLY with grasping dreams or diminish by whispered “too small”?
Vain Repetitions
SULLY the luster of the silver and gold,
DYING like the sun at dusk; vows seen as
UTILE manipulations are no longer
ENDOWed with power…or answers.
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Toe-ticking
The
TOCSIN rings its heraldic
TONIC, beginning of the new jazz
SUITE, a piece that quickly has our fingers
CLICKing, and toes ticking.
An Abyss Might Open
CLICKs—string section turns from bow, to tapping out our intuition:
TONIC will never sound this work’s last note.
SUITE races to conclusion: one vast, deep, discordant
TOCSIN. The building vibrates, an abyss might open.