Amigos

two men
best friends
call and response
conversation
so fast
they are the only two
who laugh
about
keeping
the tempo

Flirt

applies for a job
because the guy
behind the counter
is "too cute".

The Boy Who Liked Trains Too Much

I read a story about a man who for 30 years
posed as a New York City transit worker.
He knew
the routes and
how to drive every truck, bus, subway train
how to use every wrench, hammer, arc welder
to tweak it all

and he did

and ended up
speeding up
every slowdown
in the system

before
he went
to jail.

That Way

what would a redneck say
about a skinny guy
who points at
everything
using
a
pinkie?

Cold Contact

I got a flacid clammy handshake
from her father.
He thought every guy
was just like him
and only wanted
sex
from
her.

Bjork Trapped In a Glacier

"looking hard for moments of shine"
she sings high pitched.
now how could such a pixie
see anything
3000 feet down
at the bottom of billions of tons
of icecream-like frigid flow
oozing across land?

Grant Rider

Also,
Has anyone
been paid to
compare the sound
of walking on snow
with
the sound
of walking on sand?

Liquor

But,
would it send you into
a sacred trance?
licking
the toads
backs
wrestling
jumbled
stacked
trying to make tadpoles
in the water grass
of a clear lake.

or is it more convenient
to funnel
three quarts of
that high proof alcoholic
liquid that ends with "meister"
into your stomach?

Freshman Philosophy References

Make your shit academic
by throwing the open parenthesis in the front
then fill it up with a German last name
and then a date
from the mid 1860s
and close it
and place that after a quote
you come up with that sounds..
um
what's a good big word....
gregarious?
no?
truculent?
that way
Dr. Schopendeigger
or whatever his name is
thinks your first-semester-ass spent time in the library.

middle school green on the last day before summer 7th grade history teacher gave a lecture on the color they used to paint the halls of the delipidated building we were sitting in "then psychologists noticed certain colors soothe people. take this room for example. Sit an angry criminal in here for about 30 minutes and the pleasant shade of green you see will calm him down." The bell rang and we all shouted and ran out.

Carryall

I've seen the backpacks
folks use to carry their young'uns
but sincethey came out
I aint seen none
for carrying yer dawg
or
yer cat.
And they aint got no leashes for cats neither.
But they do for chirrun.

Kid 1.0

I do not know if she is wired correctly.
Say the wrong thing she starts yelling
or
take the item from her hand she yanked off the store shelf
and
she could pick up the closest object and throws it.
with a little more programming I think
we can fix her behaviour.

Final bell before summer

Even the kid who hated PE
broke a sweat running out
when the bell rang.

Mechanics of Aging

There's a gremlin who keeps track of the elderly.
When folks reach a certain age
he steals into their cars
at night
and switches the gas peddle
with the brake peddle.

Prom Cool

tie dye
cumberbun
came undone
during
a long
song
just
as he
was trying to
yank down
his date's thong
.

I have a recurring dream
I sit next to a swing set
where a plastic toy tommy gun
the kind that rattles when you tug on the trigger.
is swinging back and forth on the set
and asks for a push.
I push
and it rattles loudly.
As the swing hits the highest point in
its arc
and the chain loosens
then
yanks tight
the toy
laughs
and
lets fly
a
fuscilade
of
fake
bullets.

Transit Change

The first time those bastards fell out
when I bought a ticket with a 20
I thought I'd hit triple lemmons.