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some words about diet

If "Chipotle," my stomach advises
Whereupon the occasion arises
I'll skip guac and rice
For pollo and spice
Which salsa affords and comprises

I take the hot, corn, and the mild
In aluminum foil compiled
With lettuce and cheese
So let us eat, please
How cheaply taste buds are beguiled

leaf me alone 

Scene 1. Me v. Shakespeare

Enter SHAKESPEARE'S IAGO, a fictional character, and HOLMES, a very real person

SHAKESPEARE's IAGO:

And let me the canakin clink, clink;

And let me the canakin clink:
A soldier's a man;
A life's but a span;
Why, then, let a soldier drink.

HOLMES:

And let me the author debunk, bunk;
The rhyme-cheating 'Speare I would flunk:
His meter, so off;
His old words make me cough;
Why, then, let a writer get drunk.

TOGETHER: Some wine, ho!
exeunt

centennial park folf 

recreating recreation

You must use the legs in the thrust
Adjust for the powers of gust
Be careful the tree
See where goeth 'bee
Or trust me, you'll go home nonplussed

to my sandha i go for refuge 

at bloomington beach

it's not everyday that one passes
a man sprawled out next to his glasses
beside buddha, on a beach
i was shocked at their reach
this piece understanding surpasses

fell into the well 

terse verses

if only my limerical blogging

weren't as irregular as my jogging

i'd have tomes full of poems

and the poems would have homes

but instead they my head have been clogging

it's not easy: AABBA

these poems weren't scrawled in a day

i writhed when i writ 'em

with their rhyme and their rhythm

word work ain't the same as word play

 

has anybody seen my baby?

missing: one laptop, three years old (i would guess)
last seen Halloween, but in civilian dress
she had a screen saver
even that couldn't save her
she asked of me nothing, and left me with less

how i miss her sweet glow-hum and electronic buzz
i've alerted authorities, including the fuzz
she had killer apps
and could fold and collapse
if she wasn't a woman, no PC ever was

 

stipelyn mancashakur

makeup of manson, tattoo of shakur
lips of mike stipe, if not his allure
my eyes johnny cash's, and if hair i pulled back
you'd see that my ears are ms. roberta flack's
some would call it a face; i call it couture

sym-mict-rical

there are times when you've just got to go
which means stop, please, if you're on the road
'cause windows are windy
and bottles aren't friendly
especially when they overflow

 

foster parent application poem

oft' mistaken for battlefield cry
the art of the trees is bonsai
unless practiced on hijos
then it's called comprachicos

but the same rules and tools could apply

sf moma 

schlomo's habit

when his thoughts became perfectly dull
he would put the white stuff in his skull
dopamine well-deployed
the young Doctor Freud
found a link betwixt body and soul

hairless wonder 

NYU friend of a friend

male or female? he couldn't decide
so he tatted them both in his hide
thanks to double-signed nipple
his prospects have tripled
(he's a hit on the lower west side)

 

 

mobile home

if ever you feel the vibration
to separate house from foundation
you might reconsider
neighbors not to embitter
unless it behooves your location

austin city limitations 

this really happened

if you try to pick fights with the drink
you should know that you'll soon hear the clink
of the cuffs 'round your wrists
as the cops will be pissed
that you messed master shake's straw of pink

 

the bassist's boondoggle

on sixth street polite passersby
were not heeding the street singer's cry
his songs were arranged
to appeal for their change
but instead they just gave him the eye

 

jeff feels the heat

he knew what he'd done to deserve it
and she had been there to observe it
now hand of cold brass
coming down on his ass
would both reinstill fear and preserve it

F=MA(P).

unrelated ode to an aff"lick"tion

the diagnosis was swift, and it stung
"geographic", said the doc, was my tongue
then i used it for curses
'cause he said "but what's worse is,
you may also have coal miner's lung"

portrait of the artist as a young radiator 

united states of limericka

if your suppers feel somewhat abridged
or leave bitter your alveolar ridge
five or six burritos
from johnson drive don chilitos
might appease you your hunger a smidge

a lesson in tolerance

ms. O was a dastardly femme
whom i shant introduce to my mom
for if mom were to know
how perverse was ms. O
she might go and lose her aplomb

it takes two to tengamos

first thoughts made public

perspiring, as at long last i get
with this blog, my web appetite whet
can fortunes blogs change,
posted poems well-arranged?
against such a claim i should bet