PLACES TO CHILL

PLACES TO CHILL

a homeland
for poets and artists
and people who
would walk to
walk around naked
seeing infinity and all eternity
etc etc

and cops armed with feathers
and open-air
prisons which are
just
places to chill

TICKLED PINK

shot with a joke gun
about to die
laughing

but clown
paramedics
saw him turn blue
rushed to
the rescue

repainted him
fuchsia

shade known
in the
trade
as
“tickled pink”

DARK CARNIVAL

I got my ticket
for the dark carnival

stole it from
an evil clown while
she slept beside me
so much red
white face paint
all over my body

looked like a plague
victim (one
insanely happy)