The Raveled Sleeve Of Care

photo: davy carren

hunted for want

we come to half terms with jesus’s pa

pay dirt dictates

collapsed outward

just for known onions

an ass’s laze through rain’s glaze

a trend’s limp shake

and all’s jake

bypassed for a gasper

crippled in the breaking news

an off-shore’s tickling the storm’s belly

you know

pleases are tried for contempt

a third course all berries

a four-flusher tweaked just wrong

expensive dates and jangled nerves

ankled around poverty row

with some bluenose sporting cheaters

a canceled stamp with darb gams

walkdowns like tombs

cops pounding doors

in trouble less deep

the rain’s keep in chips

mazuma’ed out too late

in the till’s tilt

warn’s just the devil’s awl

corrupt as senators

half-seas over

we leave our names in the sidewalk

and scram