Tag Archive: fun with words


Trust Me, I Know The Difference

I demanded of the bouncer
to return my money – the sign said
Lurid Thrusts & Primal Undulation
while all I saw were timid sways

Chagall 2015

Bold Greens

She ate her broccoli
cockily.

Chagall 2015

O’My

Obtuse
oblique
opaque
but
oh so
entertaining

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Avoid these patterns intentionally

Reticent or slightly dense –
there is a difference you know.

Not even a rhymer.

Like throwing zephyrs at darts
– oh you know what I mean!

(don’t make me type all caps)

Chagall 2015

Ellipsis Interruptus

Grip you
pull yo . . .
oh boy, I can see
I’ve already lost you

No?

. . . u in.

Chagall 2015

S’Wonderful

Sound as light
upon blond lashes,
breath in a whisper
punctuates consonants
softly on eardrum cilia.

Such ticklish fancies.

Chagall 2015

Waxen Acrylics

Merely an experimental malaise
spiraling numbly, likewise nimbly
the lame slither askew off the walkway
while naked dancers waltz precariously
too close to be social.

Chagall 2015

Kismet, X Marks the Spot

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I was rocking a Lower East Side tee
the kind with a map on front
when a pigeon released herself from high
and it landed on the site I was born

© Chagall 2015

Similar To Crumb Cake

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I do shots
of sugar dots
shaken
nonpareils

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Tip O’ The Day

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When bringing stuff
to the compost heap
or even to the dump
you have to know when
not to breathe.

© Chagall 2015