Absence

(truer words never spoken nor written)
take my word and decline
and absolutely refuse to take...

where amble lances
hurled with the might
of off fish hull seductress dances
setting...

(and cries out long day's journey into night,
no...not for Eugene O'Neill),
but rather being...

In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth,
thence subsequently spanning across...

Gotcha! Once respectable haute cuisine thief Sue She...,
a septuagenarian renown for his trademark...

not just in time for Valentine's Day
but the remaining days of our lives
as the world turns...

Whenever the missus irks me or complains...
I tell her don't "Hock me in chinik" nor kvetch
...

at approximately
a painfully early o'clock in the morning
give or take an o'clock
...

since being a student in grade, junior and high school
analogous to geometry proof how lack of use...

("Thus always I cause the death of tyrants.”)
the purported line Brutus uttered
after...

Though negligible communication
now transpires between us
twenty seven years ago
come...

Location: Gobbler's Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. First held on February 2, 1887 prognosticating how...

Theo and the Giant Mango

In the shadow of a sprawling city,

Theo stands,

a...

if your name is melancholy,
the scant tidbits I know of French.

perfect cold day to down...

No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed,
and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025...

Aforementioned event interestingly enough
coincides with Martin Luther King Junior day.

The...

while channeling the energy of Google
exemplified by cute and cuddly moogle.

I awoke from...