This silly little poem is going to be released shortly in my collection, "Confession to the Cockroaches and Other Poems" Inbox We think...

As featured in Day 610 of Central Coast Poetry Shows: https://www.facebook.com/CentralCoastPoetryShows/ This will also be the eponymous...

(Spoken Intro) Now if you an' I git our heads to meat I'm sure we can flesh all this out... (Riff into blues) Don't give me no...

What else is there to write about that isn’t written yet? What can I self-ignite about without precursor’s debt? Whatever thought there...

Here's why the red alert is on: we're flushing down this black hole like a john. But space-time singularities gone bad are facts of life,...

How could my mother ever vote for Trump? She once campaigned for Senator McGovern! There’s no excuse for championing this chump. She used...

Please, Mister Flight Attendant, Sir, don’t bring him no more peanuts! He’s on his fourteenth bag right now since we flew past Salinas....

Comme une espèce de fauve au zoo Delphine me montrait à ses amis car je mangeais trois fois plus qu'elles. En principe cela m'arrangeait;...

When your’re handing out horns, in a band, (as any instructor has known) the kids who’d not otherwise planned are the ones whom you give...

In the fires of the desert sun, scorching at noon, as I stumbled through sand dunes and cactus, I was cool, hands and feet, took no note...

On the side of a Grecian urn, in azure clear, One perceives a donkey, braying in the grass. You, O Goddess, have stabbed him with your...

This poem originally appeared in The Literary Nest. The unfortunate name evokes a pornographic ploy, but, after all, it’s crammed with...

8 exercises in negative prefixes. This is from decades ago, when I had more time on my hands for this sort of silliness. 1. This...

Saint Jude, he was at wit's end, for he could find no sin deplorable enough that Trump could not own in spades, and still win. It started...

6/98 I studied for years every clue that's been found of the earliest humanoid race, and I had to conclude they bumbled around without...

(Thulium mendelevium indium palladium: Lawrencium, Molybdenum.) (Two men in the Palladium: Larry, Mo.) LAWRENCIUM: Francium? Germanium?...

If you give a 53 year-old ecstasy she will think about her daughter and start to regret the friction. She will want a pen and paper to...

Nathaniel begged us for a pup over each morning's coffee cup. "I'll walk and feed her!" "I'll clean up her poop," Sam said. So we said...

If you open the door to Philosopher Jones on a night when you're having a feast, He will drink all your wine, gnaw your meat to the...

You must come with me now to the house of my youth; there are things you should see that I long have suppressed. I desire no longer to...