Haiku 199
Swiss missed the corn on
the floor. Dishwater blonder,
my squirrel, your skunk.
I REMEMBER COLORFUL PAPER EVERYWHERE
12, 18, 24, 53, 68, 8
If I ,
Spin the bottle,
It will land on you we,
Will measure the,
Years in Powerball jackpots .
If the ,
Bottle is blue,
You will sandy grab my hand you,
Will drag me to the store you,
Will buy me peanut M&Ms.
Little House
Childhood is exactly
A decade long &
Mine Started
New Years Eve 2010 when
My Aunt’s
Bent fork fingers filed
A plastic champagne flute
A cigarette and
A Roman candle
Into a snakeskin clutch
She gave me
With her eyes closed
All people are
Holding one of these three things
Or in very rare cases they
Also have the clutch
In which
Case you stare briefly
At each other
Across the salad bar
And pretend you
Really just wanted
A bowl of plain
Baby spinach
Ruler
Give the Devil an inch &
He’ll tell you he
Also
Quit his job last week.
He’ll tell you the whole story through the rearview and
Right turn slow enough to look you in the eyes at the point
Where he shuts his laptop and tells his boss to fuck off
He sold
1.3 million in
Kitchen cabinets
Yearly.
He’s making that much with Uber now
But miles away from where he was supposed to let you out,
He asks if you like gas station coffee.
You say no,
Not really
He stops,
Anyway
The Irish Cream
Creamer,
The Quick Stop in
Delaware
The odometer is flashing 1T MU57 B3 A BL3551NG
Give the Devil an inch &
He’ll take you by his girlfriend’s house;
Give the Devil an inch &
He’ll play “free fallin” at the open mic every week for ten years;
Give the Devil an inch &
he’ll be your Ruler.
