SASSY holiday cheer, deep as a shallow puddle,
TOKEN nod to peace drowned by commerce and nostalgia.
PRISM of the season splits our longing into empty beams.
REVUE, noisy, flashy, bouncy, to crowd out low hopes.
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I can’t live without it!
It’s Christmas and while the fridge is CHOCK
full, the blinking Internet on FIBRE
is down. Again. The intermittency last week DROVE
me mad, like standing in a field full of BRIAR.
Roads and Tracks
CHOCK pulled, plane taxis, soars, slips ground’s hold.
BRIAR, meadow, town, fields, hills. Also:
DROVE of roads and tracks, lines on Earth’s face,
FIBER of societies, nerves and veins, carry pulse and impulse.
Golem in the Shadows
GOLEM in the shadows, yet forehead sigil clear,
SPIRE in background says Gotham,
JOKER, manic ennui radiating, front and center.
OPTIC mishmash reminds of Kavalier and Clay.
huh?
AWARD
OFFERs me
BLISS if only I can
PROVE I’m worth it.
Major Award
PROVE bona fides, then
BLISS’ll be yours,
AWARD received, thanks to
OFFER from Publisher’s Clearing House.
Flex
STEAK knives, pearl handled, deluxe set.
CASTE requires flex and display,
PETALs, filigreed silk flowers.
COWER, lesser folks with lesser swag!
Bribery
FIXER arrived to fix the
TOTAL chaos I had caused. He offered me a
CARAT (so I heard) to use him again when it came to cleaning my
TUNIC.
Sizzle Sells
FIXER here to rescue fizzled scene:
CARAT upon carat of Bulgari cascade,
TOTAL makeover, glam of smoky eyes,
TUNIC cut low, cut high. Sizzle sells.
Familial Heridatement
MERCY is not the familial heridatement, she thought;
POPPY won’t appreciate his totaled Jag. He’ll be . . .
TESTY, choleric, dyspepetic-so not overjoyed, thought she
DRYLY, took deep breath, squared shoulders and stepped into the library.