Poetry – GTC
Champions of Sleep
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Read MoreConcerned Citizen
eli constantly rails online denouncing greedy bemoaning hungry as shoves more food into belly
Read MoreTerrorist in Miami
Those who perished in Twin Towers are confused U.S. government self-proclaimed bastion of anti-terrorism daily strokes enduring terrorist Luis Posades Carriles who in seventies blew Cuban airliner from sky killing everyone and then continued bombing and murdering when not selling cocaine and now says sleeps like baby in Miami where paints landscapes for admirers who…
Read MoreLate Night Howl
damn neighborhoods without streetlights make me get lost and run right over darting dogs can’t stop in dark since howls unsettling and owners might do something
Read MoreDog with Gun
puppy king of yard happy growing fast father moves in usually eats some of son’s food and won’t let have any unless owner monitors pup gets skinny starts cowering and stops only when predeceases father if pup had gun things could’ve been different
Read MoreDinosaur Dogs
thrilled to see two dinosaurs size of dogs and ask owner their age says seven they can barely get up and walk soon won’t be able to at all and will have to put down just like you someday
Read MoreCanine Insight
ann swears dog knows her moods prances when happy cringes when not and whines when boyfriend visits
Read MoreTV Discipline
andy disgusted by cable fanatics mesmerized by two hundred insipid channels and lives fine on basic package except when some sports require big cable options then calls fanatics who’re busy and refer to sports bars
Read MoreDrink Vacation
had too much last night or wouldn’t have left underwear stacked in motel rushing to early mexico city flight * * * proud had attracted beautiful senorita in loud bar but regretted smile disappeared shortly before she did
Read MoreAwaiting First Lady of Syria
wife bashar al-assad often denounces israel when will she denounce husband
Read MoreMadonna Interlude
muscular madonna lassos fan’s neck and slides off her dress as crowd chants
Read MoreTrickle Down
This story appears in the collection “In Other Hands”
Read MoreDear Leader Vladimir Putin
i look like sinister kgb chief yet charm russians as masculine action man judo throwing men over my hip horseback riding bare chest muscles bright in sun hunting and fishing russians know my leadership saved from chaos following biggest geopolitical disaster twentieth century crumbling soviet union i established order led economic boom and denounced united…
Read MoreSherlock Holmes Needs Straightjacket
new sherlock holmes movie maniacal high tech farce detective robert downey relentlessly overbearing bakersfield patrons quite pleased
Read MoreStrange Custom
strange custom tolerates crude women squatting behind gender
Read MoreNightmare Returns
many years vowed never would again but defiled mouth and head convinced really had awakened
Read MoreChristmas Food
thirty years merry company christmas parties no one damaged evident act of god no longer assured worries new boss banning festivities since every year food sickens millions hospitalizes thousands kills hundreds
Read MoreTeddy Bear
mommy and daddy had rooms full of smelly chemicals rotting teeth and making act crazy and now at night i don’t even have my teddy bear cuz police said it’s contaminated Source – Performing Arts Christmas Extravaganza in Tehachapi, December 17, 2011. To read “Wired in Bed,” please click here
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