Saturday, October 01, 2016
Shared Adventure
-Then we ran into the sewers to escape!
-A movie!
-The rats there started squealing, finally setting
up into a single ear-splitting SHRIEK.
-Jeez! Afraid? Or trying to intimidate?
-Both.
-They’re that complex?
-Fellow mammals!
Labels: adventure, behavior, escape, fear, intimidation, mammal, primal fear, rats, sewer
Sunday, March 18, 2012
All But Time
His impressed skin
after deepest sleep
tells him the children
have eaten Ritz Crackers
in the bed again,
while scrolling porn
titles on the program
guide. Joline will
come to handle them.
It's a short flight
on Sardine Airlines,
thank God! He wears
shoes with velcro straps,
the better to kick them off at
X-ray. Proper also for his des-
tination. The air aboard assaults
with historical BO. Picks
the youngest cabbie midst
an imploring horde.
He'll recite the history wrong
but spew great celebrity gossip.
Has him cut the AC and open
the windows to ancient odors,
their palpable feel. Once
again established, it's dinner
at the port where's he's remembered
with staggered toasts. Returns praises
with his own. Afterwards, Marco
takes the driver's seat of the tractor
in the moon-slashed courtyard.
"Since when?"
"It’s time."
His impressed skin
after deepest sleep
tells him the children
have eaten Ritz Crackers
in the bed again,
while scrolling porn
titles on the program
guide. Joline will
come to handle them.
It's a short flight
on Sardine Airlines,
thank God! He wears
shoes with velcro straps,
the better to kick them off at
X-ray. Proper also for his des-
tination. The air aboard assaults
with historical BO. Picks
the youngest cabbie midst
an imploring horde.
He'll recite the history wrong
but spew great celebrity gossip.
Has him cut the AC and open
the windows to ancient odors,
their palpable feel. Once
again established, it's dinner
at the port where's he's remembered
with staggered toasts. Returns praises
with his own. Afterwards, Marco
takes the driver's seat of the tractor
in the moon-slashed courtyard.
"Since when?"
"It’s time."
Labels: aging, escape, memory, nostalgia, pornography
