REPEL or attract? With her, it’s the
MANOR in which she criticizes my spelling and blows her
MONEY on dictionaries to make her point, a
ZESTY personality that I find to much.
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Crepe Day
CREPE day is Saturday.
CADDY pulls out for the Nutella,
DRIER noise in the background, a
TANGO of chores and pleasure.
Resolutions
QUASH old habits and ways of thinking.
MOULT my old skin like a snake,
STALK the prey of new goals, with an
EDICT that says, This time is different.
Helpless laughter
TRAWLing through the death notices, I’m seized with a
SPASM, my legs won’t hold me, I’m feeling
SHAKY all over, and giggling begins to bubble up. Very
PICKY, normally, about what I read in the paper
OWING to the way disasters, violent offenders, murderers
LEVER me, for some unknown reason, into helpless
LAUGHter. It’s a psychic-physiological thing.
HOMER cracks me up, his Iliad seems a farce. Once-
EASELled savage paintings by Goya and Munch, or the thought of a still-
BIRTH, reduce me to whoops of hilarity, the tragic made comic. You’re
BIGOTed about me but I can’t help it. I hate it that bad news is in
AMPLE supply. Here, for example, unexpected, is my father’s obituary.
By this time, my wife had moved to another aisle
The
FRUIT, temptingly out of my toddler’s
REACH, brought a performance of his floor-shaking
RUMBA. The thumping dance steps brought a
SLUMP triumphant in the pyramid of apples.
Amends
SHAWL wrapped tightly against the wind as I
WRITE my apology for yesterday’s words
ALONG the river not far from here where the
DEMON on my shoulder won the argument.
Kayaking in the jungle
Getting the ZEBRA to stand in the
KAYAK was the easy part, which
HENCE proves that making him sit and
paddle, this side, that side, was the WORST.
[No image is available of this feat]
Portrait of a Bygone Harbor
STEAM ships barrel in and out,
SALTY air, crying gulls matching the capitalist energy.
SLOOP more leisurely embarks.
TRUSS the rigging, sea’s bouncing today.
(I have no idea if “truss the rigging” makes any nautical sense)
Tucker
LIBEL case involving star
CABLE news reporter
WREAKs havoc on the entire
SCOPE of their viewing demographic.
Your Call is Important to Us
BASTE an entire turkey while my
QUERY with customer service falls behind the
SNAIL on its way somewhere conclusive, Augustine’s
PEARS less tempting than rage for still being on hold.