Bananas Poem

I saved three dollars
since the bananas were covered in spiders;
at least in the recent past that was the case.
The red electrical tape said as much on the rack.

Construction Ladder Poem

Rosie was on the factory floor,
and Zucks was digging a ditch.
They have rhino horn for sale in Walgreens,
but the waterbugs fall at the door and twitch.
A whale shark in the bathtub
only has to ring a bell,
and ten kindergartners coming running
with aphrodisiac powder, no smell.

Stray Cat Poem

Stray cats don’t identify as “stray.”
There’s no way you could convince them either,
no list of characteristics you could lay out.
They even reject squatter’s rights
and the fact that stamps can be used as currency.
They have a system of grandfathering in
old cats that make their way into new…

Grocery Sniffing Poem

Michelle, I’m just not gay; it’s a fact,
and there’s no reason to win the trivia contest.
Your boss has tons of candy on his desk;
he prays to witches, the undead, and the restless.
He spends days at the grocery sniffing for freshness.

For a Good Time Poem

For a good time call blank
is a fairly reasonable hookup, not a prank
made for a urinal wall: radical honesty.

I saw, “I was going to die, but you kept screaming,”
written in between tiles at a rundown library;
they…

Godzilla Poem

It was only Godzilla again;
after a while people repeat themselves.
A bunch of scientists stacked on each other’s shoulders
made up the interior of the lizard costume,
with eyeholes in the mouth only.

CDs Poem

CDs don’t start out blank;
there’s weird autochthonous music on them
before they get cleared out for studio tunes.

We don’t have anything that can play it,
even with computers, etc.,
but you can see all the sounds ready to go
under any…