Monthly Archives: February 2021
Visiting Grandma in the Nursing Home
Someday I will drop by the old place, sentiment full, see grandma smelling like darling sachet tucked in her lady bosom mixed with scented powder creased against crepe. She will feebly ask, I imagine, for a prize, a China lamb … Continue reading
Fishing Season
Is this the end of the line? So sorry. Didn’t mean to cut inside your vital soft parts. Accident I assure You know I make way for ladies and gentiles. Just wait, I will sweep the floor with my Yiddish … Continue reading
My Computer Speaks to Me
I have created a computer language called EXTRA because I am not BASIC. It goes like this: if A is true then the bright sun gives off little heat even though it makes you sweat; ergo if B is false … Continue reading
I Met Little Lulu
when I was five in Deafie’s cramped candy store around the corner from where I lived in the Bronx shadowed by the rattling El. We called him Deafie because he was deaf. I myself was called four-eyes. It was a … Continue reading
Numbers Game
I can count on my fingers all the occasions you crisscrossed dick-faced lied to me that is if I had eight arms like an octopus or Kali. I was counting on you coming through, you no-account bastard and now I … Continue reading
Soletude
Put on them soft sole shoes baby baby you know you want to dance with me. I went to the fish store yesterday for a pound of gray sole like my father always ate. For your information sole is a … Continue reading
In a Vision
I bought a stuffed creature today in a vision Cat swats like a storybook animal in a vision Sometimes a cat toy is only a hollow thing with feathers Sometimes it is a five hundred page novel in a vision … Continue reading
Provincetown Ekphrasis
It scared the shit out of me, the thought of running my fingers across the crass abs of those Greek gods straight out of 1970, with their pornstaches and tight pants, scared me so much I backed away, not me … Continue reading
Add Venturing to My List of Skills
I am sick of winter a season redolent of cat piss and skeletons where devil trees flay the ground humped with snow and spiked with moonish icicles I spool on my boots open the shudders whining frozen tears venture my … Continue reading