Don’t Stop Now

SHEER cliff descended, pre-positioned kayak retrieved: paddle for it.
DRIER moments soon envied, each breath stokes hope of freedom.
ROWER, sore muscled, with blistered hands, feels he can
CINCH it. Just a few more miles across the bay, before the sun comes up, before alarms sound.

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.

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.