Saucy

THINK the trend for the sauce is to
AMAZE. I’m amazed you didn’t know this.
SAUCE likes to think it amazes, so
TRENDy does the sauce think it is.

The Latest Craze

TREND: a social contagion, perhaps benign.
A MAZE of novelty: participate? Hold out?
SAUCE sizzling with choices. Hop on, hop in!
THINK: what’s the next fidget spinner?

Muggy weather

COUNT on one hand the times it’s been this
CLOSE. That fan ain’t doing no good. The
BUGGY’s covered with frisking flies, the pudding’s gone all
LOAMY.

Hippo

BRACE yourself for a wall falling on you: the
HIPPO has arrived for breakfast.
BROAD north, south, east and west, he maintains a
GOOEY expression, in spite of his stature.

At the Hippodrome

BROAD sweep of turn now straightens, as hyper focused riders
BRACE upon the lathering horses: now the final stretch.
HIPPOdrome crowd holds its breath, transfixed.
GOOEY ice cream cones melting in streaks onto clutched fists.

A Murder on the Block

COUNT the shots-5?-call 911,
BUGGY world leaks its broken numbness,
LOAMY earth soon to fall on Marcel, murdered neighbor I never met.
CLOSE the book, Lord, chapters getting darker. Bring the new city. Soon.

Note: this happened last night. I did not know Marcel. He was shot to death 50 yards from where we slept.