INDEED

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poem, poetry

INDEED

I directed
then you directed
the film in
our heads

first part
a comedy
second
part a
tragedy

and as
the villain
there
I did
indeed
exceed myself

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THIS IS HOW WE CONNECT

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poem, poetry

THIS IS
HOW WE
CONNECT

you poke
fun
at my poem

so much so
that your joke
went straight
through the
paper
(as though heated
to measure the
heresy of
a soul by
none but
His Holiness
Torquemada)

which brought me
in conceptualizing things
distinctly phallic
to consider the
flower
red hot poker

a more lovely ramrod
never did Nature conjure

but this tangential,
by the
by

as your joke
strikes a chord,
tickles
flesh

magically

as it fails
falls flat

the shape of
my mouth
telling all
(or comment
about
last laugh, regret)

escaping like
steam to
storm the
air

so time
we have now
author, wrong-
reader, to
enjoy, repent

philosophize that this be
how we indeed connect

WROTE YOU INTO MY LIFE

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poem, poetry

WROTE YOU
INTO MY LIFE

I wrote you
into my life
thinking
of the
ending of
a Shakespearean
comedy

not the
beginning
of a tragedy

the stage
not yet littered
with enough death.

TRUTH LIGHT

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poem, poetry, satire

TRUTH LIGHT
(ON THE BOIL)

It’s all
truth light

no truth
deep

or truth
dark

no truth master brewed
that (more than
just a grain)

rises from the ground to
satisfy richly, green
as John Barleycorn

Oh we
sup our ale, and before
that our mead, longing
for truth that is not
a concoction

need not
be distilled

(though there on the stove
boiling away

Mr Frankie Boyle

strong as a
steam train, his cruel
carefree truth

finding its mark
having
its
wicked way

TUPPERWARE LOVE

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poem, sexual symbolism, Universe

TUPPERWARE LOVE

Oh let me order
a Tupperware house
with a Tupperware
kitchen, lounge and
stairs
leading up

to the Tupperware bedroom
and Tupperware bed

here we take
off our Tupperware clothes
become Tupperware lovers
make
Tupperware love

everything staying so fresh
and tightly sealed.

COMICAL

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poem, poem poetry political moral, poetry, satire

COMICAL

burn all
the books
there is
too much
to read

starve to death
irony and the
other figures
of speech
(let’s reduce
every fat image
to a
stick figure!)

only thing to
leave
after the fire
has raged global

Plato, the great
religious texts and
perhaps
some poetry

(thinking here of
the entirely comical, rather
than the serious kind)

THE ALIEN POEMS: TICKLE

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poem, poetry, satire, Universe

THE ALIEN POEMS

TICKLE

you have to love
alien satire, alien comedy
so much
slap

and tentative tentacle tickle

ZIZEK ON COMEDY

ZIZEK ON COMEDY

Oh, Professor Zizek
I love your grim, occasionally
brutal philosophical comedy

fat Plato laughing
until he shakes
the metaphysical foundations

as you
hit the punchline
spitting out the bones

THE MILKMAN

The milkman
was genetically tested

over the years he
fathered a thousand children
in his route.

That’s a lot
of milk.

SUPER BOWL

we were at
the Super Bowl
correction:

ten
yard penalty for
holding, we
were the Super Bowl

correction: ten yards, no
I meant to say
feet,
no I meant to
say inches

there were
interceptions, but
not a fumble, not
a safety you
blitzed me on
third and
two

I replied with a
Hail Mary

at the close I held you with
tight goal-line defence
(both of us
so killing when we
smell the red zone)