Flavours fizzed upon the tongue
Oozed and popped, then soured and swum
Inside the cheeks the gelatinous gum
Got stuck and stung
Unable to dislodge his face purpled and swelled
Nostrils working double time
Releasing then a smoking slime
He was felled on the company’s dime
The rabbit’s foot
They put in the stew
The horseshoe
Was on a horse
The four leaf clover
Nibbled down
To three
The operation was
Successful
An angel dancing
On a
Pinhead
The gravestone
Labelled
Best before
A spun bottle
At the slumber party
The undertaker tardy
The monk, drunk
On swirling elixir
Observes the firs by moonlight
The wind lifts their
Scent
To the casement
And soon he’s slumped
Into a
Snore
The peas appeased the diplomats and peace broke out.
The phantom limb
Earned in the grinder
Floaty, itchy reminder
Stomped on at films
Of panic and horror
Quick for the door
Haunting behind the wainscotting
Caught in a cupboard
Already gone
Toward the light
Before Jim.
Ice brrr g(lug)
If he doth wear pantaloons
If he bear figs
May the wrath of nothing be upon him
If she doth wear petticoats
If she bear fruit
May the wrath of nothing be upon her
His cigarette
His exhaust pipe
Powered him on his walks
He’d do a kind of hop
Even in the rain or snow
You’d see the glow in the dark
As he hoofed
And puffed
The cloud of disdain
At your sedentariness.
Sincerely
Non-drearily
Scrub up, mask up
Emergency on guitar
Tragedy on vocals
Stub out ten thousandth cig
Gig in the icu
Breech birth on drums
Fallen into despair in elevator
Calling Dr. Cohen
Balling in fertility
Nurses sing flirtily
Rehearses a new ditty
Last words, make it witty
The moon is blurred
The clouds are high
She is feared
By certain tribes
They lay a curtain
Across their wives
The light has reached
The soft forehead
The moon has made
The morning’s bed