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Thursday, Oct 04, 2001

edited out of good sense


the pen is a crook
a steel-eyed rook

a shark with a bark
to be written, not bitten

biding the time
fouling each line

youve got to pick
a pocket or two

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whats eating you


the noisome boys
with gurls unfurled

in swirling links
with fetid drinks

arm in arm

feigned in interest
the lore of the albacore

have you no appetite
for contrite?



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Tuesday, Oct 02, 2001

patina


thats a familiar slight
build

left flanked
for me?

there was a near collision
doubled backwards

if i had only remembered the violet
but everything was yellow

right malcolm?


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Monday, Oct 01, 2001

iron lion zion


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all aboard


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aftershucks


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robot wars


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Sunday, Sep 30, 2001

wait until dark


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Saturday, Sep 29, 2001

tear jerker

Report: Gen X Irony, Cynicism
May Be Permanently Obsolete

AUSTIN, TX— According to Generation X sources, the recent attack on America may have rendered cynicism and irony permanently obsolete. "Remember the day after the attack, when all the senators were singing 'God Bless America,' arm-in-arm?" asked Dave Holt, 29. "Normally, I'd make some sarcastic wisecrack about something like that. But this time, I was deeply moved." Added Holt: "This earnestness can't last forever. Can it?"

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Friday, Sep 28, 2001

caught in a spyders web



how many cliches can i rend in an hour
glassy eyed

the light
whiter than white

i remember how that damn thing
would never give me any peace

a plastic smile
why wont you cooperate

ive always been a big fan



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