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Were you one of the torturers?

Were you one of the torturers
or more like a troll or voyeur or a

tormented blunderer in the
temple of souls?

Were you one of the torturers?

Elves

I stole a guitar from the cannibals!
You smooched the witch of moolah!

We lived like elves in the leafy canopy!
You could probably fly!

Now all our swans are
dying dying dying

and we don't even cry!

Breakfast

They can hear you snoring in the house next door!
You mooned the planet Neptune!

You look like a
cross between an

eel and a cue-ball and
no,

you can't wear your
prom dress to breakfast!

FYI

Wiggle into your water-wings, Wanda!
It's time to fly away!

You live on a reef!
You'll probably drown next week!
My sockeye sees a big storm coming!
He sees it in a cheesy fresco!
He saw it in raw meat!

My sockeye sees you go under!

Meerkat

I own the Great State of Oklahoma!
I'm a meerkat tycoon!

Meerkats choke the Niebelungen!
They call it triage!

Choke the Rhine!
Choke the Rhone!
Choke the Rhine!
Choke the Rhone!

It's a meerkat enigma!
My phone won't ring!

I own Ohio and Wyoming!
I'm a meerkat tycoon!

Cartoon Pink

My grandma was a burgler!
My mommy burns glue in the sink!

We drink all day and at night we turn
cartoon pink!

Vita Propria

It bit my uncle!
It swallowed a thermos!

What mother wouldn't want to hear those words?

But we came to the end and remembered everything,
and then we didn't.

High School

You go back to high school.
You wish you were dead.
You blush.

You blush like the Red Mists of Aldebaran!

All the mimics and
sickos dissolve in a

cosmic

kiss!

Long Island Railroad

They all eat the same oyster!
They all ride the same horse!

Oyster-horse on a house-boat in Mecox Bay!

Arty oysters from Montauk!
Bratty oysters from Quogue!

Blur

Were you ever a blur?

Were you ever a word that turned into thistles?
Were you ever a word that turned into fur?

Were you ever a blur?

Mexico

Why does every message I get from
Mexico look like a
sex-text from a swat team?

Get naked!
Walk out the front door!

It's always bad advice!

Yuba River

Every summer someone is
swept away from a

pool in a bend of the
Yuba River above the Bridegeport Bridge,

where the river grinds stone into sand
and the sand can

suddenly slip away.

Eventually the EMT's from Yuba City
haul away the corpse in their

all-purpose

hearse and ambulance
and there are worse

ways to die than drowning in the
Yuba River above the Bridgeport Bridge,

where the river runs fast and cold and clear.

Café Ebola

Do you sing as you swing through the jungle?
Did you ever escape from a zoo?
Do they wash you in ozone or ouzo?

Is that your mouth on my menu?

Are you more like an eel or an oboe?
Are you more like a bomb or bamboo?
Are you more like a nub or a zebu?

Is that your mouth on my menu?

First Date

Are you my brick?
Am I your pecan?

I got a pancake in my brain-pan!

Forest Lawn

What I need is a teacher to teach me to
speak in trochees and I need to be

buried in the same
grave and coffin as Greta Garbo!

What I got is a row of rented
weepers and a

B-list bouquet from MGM.