Under thirteen stars and a pearly slice
of moon, the buttoned-down pink-skinned minions […]

Ninety dollars an hour in Angola
Indiana will buy you lunch and more. […]

Driving out of town, fast but not too,
sharing a cockeyed joke and smoke, sniffing […]

Does a river flow backwards like the blues
or blue memory of life as a child, kicking […]

They don’t like you. They’re just using you like
a rental car. They want you to help them. They want […]

Queasy feelings my friends will testify
against me, crackling static in the trumpet […]

Meanwhile, in the real world, everything was on the table.
Reality-based life (fact finding) was on the table. […]

Police Japan trying to curb unsavory trade.
Three businessmen vending machines sell […]

Smart money swaggers into the room and eats
your lunch, then swivels and pauses, issuing […]

Sympathy, to begin with, is a problem.
The hotels are okay and there’s free soap […]

Sometimes failure is just failure and not
injustice. Nothing succeeds like success. […]