Rain Man Poem

The album did not function;

then she rattled the cord and it got going slowly.

The math required Rain Man to sort it out,

which was unfortunate since he was unavailable.

Kool-Aid Poem

Ten neighbors looked at the ceiling and the bottle
that was filling with a red liquid,
definitely not Kool-Aid or rust.
I tested out the drill near my face
before I started in on the drywall and paneling.
The wires on the speakers still work
if you shake them around a little like leashes.
A neat ant…

“Chiggers” Poem

I include myself the most on that list
I was telling you about on the crumbling sidewalk
from when I used to walk home from school
like it was 1850 and Mars was full of ditches,
helping with irrigation and making the dust bowl
a bit more habitable for intrepid folks.

Culinary Courses Poem

The culinary courses at midnight
and the phone booth wake-up calls
can’t do a thing for your inability at math.

You can’t get credit for the lunch assignments
or the mime demonstration of frying
without showing a…

Memorex Tapes Poem

I didn’t say you were tongue kissing your mom;
it was the wrong pic and an autocorrect.
The client had to lick and fondle Memorex
tapes for at least an hour in order to get unnumb