more or less eleven

a vaccine of tea
hot down the gullet
the warmest part of the room
is the spot you are in it

optics

the light defines the shadow
but absent
the shadow defiles the light

strange figures merging with speed
periphery ghosts a dark mind sees
only the envelopes of a greater dream
leading edges or static referees

spruce

after falling, shed rather,
the needles pile up in an
orange to brown to black strata
some sort of rotting flag
or a testament to firmament
reduced, reused, recurrences

viscose

the waves are there to meet the wind
a perfect union of fluid saturdays
rolling on over to sunday
feel the breeze hear the seas

end of the road

as the yellow line
merges double into
one trouble steering
with a wobble bearing

part of the earth

today on accident
or semi on purpose
instead of ground coffee
in the pot to boil
eventually to drink
to digest and assimilate and extricate
it was black dirt
filled with mica and worms and pieces
of little and big deaths
racoons and leafs and carapaces of beetles
wooden rot and cast off feathers and butterfly eyes
and mushroom roots and rock constituents
but namely Si O Fe Ni C P H Ca K Na Cu Mg He
thats what I drank instead

rub a dub a dub

scientist in the tub
drinking gin and tonique suds
aquatic lifestyle club
double bubble buds
busier than a airline hub
business is gud

wednesday selloff

off the shelf
the goods fly
straight into bins
blue green grey
glass paper trash
the three elements
of a shopping spree
of a shooting spree
of a shipping spree
the health of economy
measured via
the wealth of democracy
we vote with our wallets
they said in 1985
and they said it again
on friday and monday
 

Big Boss Sloopy Cat

a nose split
blood licks
sticks to furs
thick over cuts
soaking wet
the fight over
the victor sober

the shooter or shooters

not only do we not
know how
many shot we dont know how many
they shot
or if they got away or got caught

what we need to know is what they had
for breakfast
and lunch
and dinner

if it is revealed that they (or them)
been eating exclusively froot loops
expect a full acquittal