Instant Poetry

This Perfume Wins

2012-02-12T11:09:00.000-08:00

Man says:
"Oh, you smell good!"

Eye in the Sky

2012-02-11T16:16:00.000-08:00

Still gives me
head-to-to-toe
chills

Pre-Lent Excitement

2012-02-11T16:13:00.000-08:00

While pondering my
Lenten tasks I
am jolly --

Republican Dude Ranch, Wyoming

2012-02-10T19:20:00.001-08:00

Best part of it was
singing China Girl
with my brother in
the ranch van

A Proper Cat Greeting

2012-02-09T06:12:00.000-08:00

Hail,
Great Glass of
Orange Sunshine

The Timbush

2012-02-09T06:10:00.000-08:00

A paw reaches out
and gets me

This Genre is Dire

2012-02-07T10:03:00.001-08:00

The Dharma Field Expands Incrimentally

2012-02-06T17:34:00.000-08:00

"Come into my parlor,"
said the spider to the fly.
"Just grab a cushion. Oh?
You brought your own,
that's great. Yeah, smoosh
in anywhere. So glad you
could come, 'cause, you know."

Instant Feedback

2012-01-31T18:56:00.000-08:00

A stinkbug is
doing a victory lap
across my keyboard

Welcome back, Count Stinkula.

I Can't Believe I Cheated on My Blog With Another Blog

2012-01-31T18:09:00.000-08:00

You open the screen door and

step aside
-- no eye contact

The Load-Bearing Soul

2011-11-26T20:27:00.001-08:00

Dad took the

younger kids
out for pizza

Lifelong aggravation costs untold thousands!

The Greatest Grain

2011-11-21T05:55:00.001-08:00

O millet! Given up
for birdseed
But you rule them all

Meno-Resume or Running Free in Nothing But a Pair of Wellies!

2011-11-20T10:11:00.001-08:00

Three years after
chemo-induced menopause
it begins again

Financial Aid Forms

2011-11-18T08:52:00.001-08:00

Even you
deserve a
poem

Steely, Catholic

2011-11-16T08:15:00.001-08:00

Elizabeth said she didn't need a drink
just one more Communion
then, Eternity

Dear Elizabeth

2011-11-14T07:06:00.001-08:00

Her brother confessed:
"I'm disappointed that
I survived the shipwreck"
-- and she understood

I'm Not Sad About This One

2011-11-11T18:19:00.001-08:00

My words cut the air
and severed the space
between us

Some of Today's Moods So Far

2011-11-11T08:42:00.001-08:00

Gilbert O'Sullivan
Sticks in the Dirt
Bone on Bone
Pretty Peach Blush
Cap'n Cronch
Chant Can't
Heart-Flare
Fingers on the Move
Circular, Furry

Secret Ingredients

2011-11-09T05:58:00.000-08:00

Preserved lemon
umeboshi
pickled tofu
and Old Bay

Yes, It is Depeche Mode

2011-11-03T18:07:00.001-07:00

Warm fall evening --
hobo at the bus stop
gives me a look

I Me Mock

2011-11-03T18:05:00.000-07:00

"I was all
'God, cancer, death,
blah blah blah' and like
'poetry et cetera'"

I Just Saw "Se7en"

2011-10-30T18:53:00.000-07:00

All the rain is dirty and
tenement walls are shiny with
decades of cheap paint --
art direction: plusplus

Brad's "talking!"
Morgan Freeman looks out of the frame,
embarrassed

Pre-internet, Morgan
all-nights it in the library while
Brad gets the Cliff's Notes

My favorite performances are
Letter Scraper
and Delivery Guy

Freeman wished

it was Pitt's head

in the box

The Mayor's Blanket

2011-10-25T19:04:00.001-07:00

It was somehow softer
and warmer than any
other blanket, ever

In a Yurt

2011-10-25T19:03:00.001-07:00

The eye of God
was upon me
(circular skylight)

Watch it, Bieber

2011-10-24T11:18:00.000-07:00

"Baby" comes on:
flurry of Girl Scouts run,
screaming "Anything but that!"

Pillow Talk: Townie Ed.

2011-10-21T09:51:00.001-07:00

Amps,
banana hammocks
regular hammocks
and vitamins

Brain-Pong

2011-10-21T06:04:00.000-07:00

The blip travels from one ear
to another

Occupy...ehn

2011-10-19T04:51:00.001-07:00

I was all fired up to sing
protest songs outdoors
-- but it's raining

Jolliness

2011-10-18T13:22:00.000-07:00

Without the scourge of my people

-- hard to find

There was no light

2011-10-18T13:15:00.000-07:00

I thought that death had come for me
but he was merely visiting

Super Sunday Look

2011-10-16T16:00:00.000-07:00

Skinny jeans

c. 1983 Patagonia jersey

mismatched socks

and pigtails

Caffeine Burn

2011-10-13T09:35:00.001-07:00

I finally turn to coffee
and it doesn't even work

Wildlife Hotline

2011-10-12T06:12:00.000-07:00

If the deer is still there
you can call the cops and
they'll put it down

Hurt and Lost Animals Magnet

2011-10-11T18:25:00.001-07:00

The young buck struggles
to get away but can't
wish I had a gun

A punctuation scuffle

2011-10-10T17:31:00.000-07:00

-I'm a serious writer, I said.
-No you're not, he said.
-Yes, I've abandoned quotation marks.
-Welcome to our ranks.

The Balance

2011-10-10T06:00:00.001-07:00

Yes, I'm dying a little each day but
I'm also being born

Yes, There Are More

2011-10-07T08:20:00.001-07:00

nausea, insomnia, menopause,
fatigue, neuropathy, hair loss
and other side effects

Don't Mind Me (The Sadness of Snack Lacking)

2011-10-04T18:24:00.000-07:00

I'm just going to eat some
substandard, off-brand
soy yogurt

alone

Beigey-Greeny

2011-10-04T05:50:00.001-07:00

Miso and
a clear pot of
sencha

Eat the Bitterness

2011-10-04T05:48:00.001-07:00

It's good for you

Trying on Dog Costumes on the Dog

2011-10-04T05:45:00.000-07:00

Ladybug, frog,

dragon or unicorn?

Only one way to find out

Cold Bed

2011-10-03T08:13:00.001-07:00

I need to unmake it to
put on the electric mattress pad but
I can't disturb the cat --

Even the Mightiest Oak Must Fall

2011-10-02T08:11:00.000-07:00

I remember their dad
always with a cigarette
pullover sweater and
Bally loafers or K-Swiss
peeling off 20s saying
Get lost, kids

I see myself peering through the slot

2011-09-30T08:25:00.001-07:00

I'd like to check my PO box in
a variety of outfits

Any Takers?

2011-09-29T16:45:00.001-07:00

I just realized I
want to write the definitive book on
the Guitar Mass

The Shape and the Colour

2011-09-28T20:55:00.000-07:00

A size-two velveteen blazer in
the colour Toothache

Display and colour by Dave La Fave

is required

Jogging With a Lapdog

2011-09-28T15:53:00.000-07:00

She doesn't want to
punch it

Other People's Microwaved Food

2011-09-27T09:14:00.001-07:00

It only comes in one aroma --

Oh man, Whole Foods was out of it

hot mayonnaise

One Last Word About Contagion

2011-09-27T09:04:00.001-07:00

I thought
this isn't that scary
it's not a bad way to go

Seminal Works of Film Snacking

2011-09-26T05:36:00.000-07:00

Demetri Martin and the
Nutri-Grain Bar in Contagion
calls to mind the groundbreaking
"Rick Dees in the Kitchen"
sequence in Poltergeist

The Nutri-Grain Bar Scene: A Primer

2011-09-26T05:33:00.000-07:00

Hair
nose
snack

Go home, rest of the movie

My Hair is Epic, and

2011-09-25T09:58:00.001-07:00

I touch the banister
and it's sticky

Also!

2011-09-23T18:29:00.001-07:00

It's raining but
I'm still really hot

I Call This Look "Baltimore Country"

2011-09-23T18:28:00.000-07:00

Raincoat,
jorts and

Sunglasses in the rain.

wellies

The Crumbled Easement

2011-09-22T18:13:00.001-07:00

An orange cone, abandoned --
just so I don't call

No one's coming for you, Coney

311 again

Now This is Happening, Hillary

2011-09-22T07:49:00.000-07:00

You went to Ave Maria, FL
and didn't even send me
a postcard?

What kind of a "friend" are you?

Almost Autumn

2011-09-21T05:53:00.001-07:00

Faint tinsel of insects
geese overhead

City Services

2011-09-20T07:44:00.001-07:00

Orange cones appear

The Tumblr Guy's Love Poem

2011-09-19T07:11:00.001-07:00

O Special Other or Something:
I'm going to try not
to play with my ipad
in the bedroom?

Outside of card.

This Cliche is True

2011-09-18T17:39:00.001-07:00

We reach for the obits,
first

I Got to Say This At Last!

2011-09-15T19:58:00.001-07:00

There's a praying mantis

on my breast implant

The Voice of Reason

2011-09-15T07:24:00.001-07:00

Talked me down from
going to law school and
having four kids

Eagerly Awaiting a Bundle of Old Irish Letters!

2011-09-14T08:40:00.001-07:00

Look through them and maybe you'll find a clue,
says my aunt. About why we are the way we are

Dependencies Come and Go

2011-09-14T08:07:00.000-07:00

I'm incapable of thinking
without several pots of
sencha these days

Whitney Ave. Early Fall

2011-09-13T09:43:00.001-07:00

I'm wearing a sweater and kilt like

Jamie Lee in Halloween --

foursquares and oaks

Joy Appears

2011-09-13T09:42:00.001-07:00

Belting out Double Vision
on my way to vote at

the old Catholic school --

In The Olden Days

2011-09-13T04:35:00.001-07:00

"People didn't
cry so much
in public"

Movie Review: World Trade Center (1996)

2011-09-12T04:41:00.001-07:00

Hollywood actors wear
mustaches and dowdy capris

and drop their Gs

Dusky Music

2011-09-10T19:10:00.000-07:00

Listening to Donovan and
the Beatles with my daughter
in the gloaming
-- repeat, repeat, repeat

Saturday Incense

2011-09-10T07:14:00.001-07:00

Chocolate, coffee, cinnamon --
Paris Cafe

Raincrickets

2011-09-09T07:47:00.000-07:00

Orange fur rising and falling
-- my heart still beats

Here's One From My Dog

2011-09-08T04:48:00.000-07:00

No one sees your tears

when you're peeing

in the rain

Baby, I Know

2011-09-07T06:58:00.000-07:00

She'd rather stay in her little
cave than have to go sit
at a desk

Plus ca change part deux

2011-09-06T06:26:00.000-07:00

Daughters wait
while their mothers talk
or type

Plus ca change

2011-09-06T06:18:00.001-07:00

She bemoaned the state
of the new Brownie uniform
to her daughter and realized
her mother had done the same

The Roku Box Isn't Magic

2011-09-04T18:49:00.000-07:00

I thought the movies
would be better

Please Work, Meditation

2011-09-04T16:14:00.001-07:00

My mind is
a recalcitrant ox

When the Lights Go Dim

2011-09-04T11:05:00.001-07:00

We'll be left, ineffectually
scraping the ground with
chubby fingers, thinking
there's supposed to be
food in the dirt

Screen Time!

2011-09-04T11:04:00.000-07:00

Interacting with computers
better than with humans,
schools decide
(also cheaper)

Yeah, I'm Doing This

2011-09-03T15:54:00.001-07:00

I dedicate this song
to myself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGmb8xH0cKE

This Was Just Said

2011-09-03T11:41:00.000-07:00

If Timmy were a tomten
he'd be a Timten

Overheard

2011-09-02T19:13:00.001-07:00

My wife's mouth is
so full of other guy's dicks
I can't understand what
she's saying

A Bad Directive

2011-09-02T18:36:00.000-07:00

How can one's "affairs"

be gotten in sufficient "order"

on such short notice?

Battlefield: Deathbed

2011-09-02T18:35:00.000-07:00

Even though she's dying,

her former husband still

harrasses her

6/6

2011-09-02T15:30:00.002-07:00

I think I came

into this world

with lowered

expectations

Unmindfulness

2011-09-02T15:30:00.001-07:00

While writing a poem

in my head I

dropped my baguette

on the sidewalk

You Must Relearn What You Haven't Learned

2011-09-01T20:42:00.000-07:00

Who needs books

in a library?

Not us

Here's Another Old Chestnut of a Plot

2011-09-01T16:47:00.001-07:00

"We'll let the computers

do the thinking for us!

What could go wrong?"

Remember When We Used to Go Camping?

2011-08-27T18:46:00.001-07:00

Actors in movies recounting

memories always do the same

looking off

and pausing

Man Has Spatial Reasoning Skills

2011-08-27T10:42:00.001-07:00

He can take metal racks and

organize the plastic containers

Why hello there, Man!

Hitting the Purchase Button

2011-08-26T07:13:00.001-07:00

Redundant makeup

vintage craft kits

Buddhist accessories

-- things I buy in a fugue state

Maybe Next Summer

2011-08-25T18:14:00.001-07:00

I realize I

didn't make it

to Dundalk

this year

Top Floor of the Outpatient Building Parking Lot

2011-08-25T18:03:00.001-07:00

Squinting in the hot rain

my thoughts are

damp

Home From the Hospital

2011-08-25T14:49:00.000-07:00

Reading, I realize

I still have my bracelet on

I Started Something I Couldn't Finish

2011-08-24T11:43:00.001-07:00

My Meetup Group

has turned into

another thing I'm

ignoring

Takeaway Message: Buddhism

2011-08-24T09:47:00.000-07:00

Being an asshole is

a colossal waste of

your time, time, time

Oh Groundie

2011-08-23T10:07:00.000-07:00

I'm camping out with

field glasses and a flask of tea

-- groundhog watch

The Crowd Goes Insane

2011-08-22T09:19:00.000-07:00

I stagger 26 steps

bearing my cat --

Timmython!

The Kid is Chic

2011-08-21T17:59:00.000-07:00

Short striped swim trunks

-- visiting French boy

My Dharma Field is Temporarily Stable

2011-08-21T13:44:00.000-07:00

Rain, brown rice

cabbage and

little creatures