SHEER surface waters hewn by a longship,
ROWER exchanges his oars for axe and shield.
DRIER days ahead, and new glory: a
CINCH to gain the jarl’s eye––and gifts.
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Nabbed!
I saw the body snatcher foolishly FRISK
the recently-interred (then disinterred) STIFF
on the cemetery’s CTV camera’s PHOTO.
Yay! Now we have the first of our DATUM.
Hollow Cheeks
STIFF upper lips, unsmiling team-what’s left of it-gathered.
PHOTO shows frostbite and hollow cheeks. Still:
DATUM is finally established-until the ice melts.
FRISK them now, you’ll not find a scrap of food, perhaps some scribbled prayers.
Wasted Weekend
SHARE of weekend’s entertainment goes to
VAPID “reality tv” when it really
OUGHT to go for star gazing,
HERON watching, rock skipping.
Investigation
FRISK the papers like a suspect hiding a
DATUM instead of contraband or weapons: somewhere, a
PHOTO, a transcript, something to justify a
STIFF back and an incessant headache.
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It’ll still hurt
‘CRANK up the tooth-pulling
LASSO, nurse, I’m gonna pull this here
TOOTH right outta his everlovin’ mouth.’
JOKER. My dentist is such a waffling joker.
Snagged
CRANK thinks backstory gives him Übermensch victim status, like
JOKER or Bane. Plots heist to make his name. His villain prop:
LASSO. In the event, it snags on a lamp post and hauls him to curb,
TOOTH chipped, getaway foiled, jewels rolling in the street.
No more!
JOKER she wasn’t -his mother! A loose
TOOTH could not be ignored. She’d
LASSO it thrice for good measure, then
CRANK till he hollered, “No more!”
Gambler’s Fallacy
JOKER discarded from the new deck whose
LASSO of plastic detritus lies on the table, now picks a
TOOTH of an absentminded player who forsook the slot’s
CRANK hours before.
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Crawl
GROIN to crown, the pain dances a
POLKA, like ice skaters that
GLIDE across cutting blades and leaves you to
CRAWL in debilitating shame.
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