Absence

malfunctioning heater
on that brisk winter day
recorded here as proof positive
...

Yours truly pinned down by invisible
vestiges of coronavirus and
getting attacked from angry...

How arbitrary the assignment
of seconds, minutes, hours,
days, months, years...
to the...

No aversion nor embarrassment
admitting, divulging, and jumpstarting
poetic endeavor...

The celebrated sailing frog
from Montgomery County
went a courtin, or so the tale iz toad...

Isolate and stay quiet,
In the darkness is always silent,
It is the one place I feel safe,...

self quarantined misanthrope...
pitched into purgatory wham!

Ably cane resign eternal...

Fatherhood (half my life time ago)
bolstered reasonable rhyme
manifesting itself before...

Though the following
twittering scenario quite absurd,
methought diehard adherents of mine...

Remarkable – recourse retaining rickety
rambling reverence regarding “r.”
Ronald Rump
...

Frigidaire - from upper atmosphere
hammering and whipsawing debris
ferociously with an angry...

Found us abed thee twelfth day
of December, cuz yours truly
still felt dehydration, physical...

Again, another awkward ambitious
arduous attempt at alphabetically
arranging atrociously...

My professional treatment plan
predicated upon duress in extremis
hence Electroconvulsive...

Hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
when off to see
a crooked man and woman,...

This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though...

especially when nasty elephant
(named Thomas the pachyderm)
stomping to break loose courtesy...