Morning Necessities

Morning lung excavation
as the night's stagnant phlegm secretions
get power coughed up the chute
into manageable spit clumps
for easy evacuation...

The pools stubbornly hanging on
from the depths of A.M. congestion
are the last to be cleared...

Once the passageways

are opened up fully

and oxygen intake

is finally uninhibited

we can proceed

to perform

other necessary

wakeup bodily

emptying activities...

Contrary to popular myth...

Life ain't all glamour and glitz

 

 

Writer's Crock

If I be a writer
that nobody reads
do the words I spew
truly get through?

So why should I really care
if my wayward craft goes nowhere?

I'm just slaying time
trying to make rhymes
of minimal consequence
to this impervious Universe

Scorched Bricks

Cultural dissolution

will commence at eight...

Please don't be late...

The best relics of our civilization

will be promptly set ablaze

in a raging bonfire you won't wanna miss...

Bring your camera phone devices

to get the best conflagration flame shots

and then toss those hand held beasts

into the cleansing fire

for a fitting ironic conclusion

Dream Team

The best distractions
are pliable commodities...

The stuff of impractical fantasies
that release us from the clutches
of our monstrous realities...

Even if only temporarily...

The best distractions
are the ones we can share...

For they can take us anywhere...

All the way to these dreams

we Earth bound beings

can craft together

Peace In Our Minds

Let's not debate
the color of the sky
or quibble about
the quantity of fish in the sea...

Don't wanna fight anymore
over topics totally lacking in relevance
to the challenges in life we face daily...

 
Our nonsensical arguments
have turned us into
social media caricatures
creating nothing but useless friction
that serves as contentious entertainment
for the bored Cyberverse masses

Hands On

Let's take a break
from our self centered race...

Take off those blinders
that serve to narrow our view
and see the beauty
that exists in the periphery...

The panorama of humanity...

See the frayed edges of our quilt..

Find those souls in need of a boost...

Kindness provided so very easily
if we access our own memories
when we were feeling lonely
and in desperate need
of basic human inclusion

Mr Second Banana

The crazy joker I once use to be

married a joketress way funnier than me...

Today I play the support partner...

Setting up her humor shots on a tee

as she dazzles the world with comedy lunacy...

Exasperated reaction shots now define my role

like the good nonplussed straight man I am...

Not a bad gig if you must know

cause I no longer gotta carry the show alone