LASHINGS OF MAD MAD SAUCE

if defeat

feels snug

bulk up 

on anger pie

three times 

every day

its investment grit

in the oyster bank

that dividends

a stretchy belt

& lashings of

mad mad sauce

FEEDING TIME AT THE ZOO

cordless 
landline
passed-on
at 
pizza time

( be strong-
  if you call them once
  you call them every time )

let
some
other
mad
drunk
ruin themselves 
calling the world

anyway
i always
bring the drink
dont i ?
and
i
seriously
cant
be
dealing
with
a
clabby phone call
in
this
degenerate 
state

i can smell my own snot
i can !
and
my
arms
are an untrained operators
practice crane

and my boots-
well 
they
might as well be
on the back of my head

wait tho-
cant you see 
im hiding here ?
from the mutants
and the landsharks . . .

even

attempting

going

to

piss

is

too

fraught

with

risk

of

exposure

and

quick

defeat

down here

under no stars

a new kind of dead

on

the

killing floor

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BECAUSE OF SCHOOL

monday morning
is
ALWAYS
monday morning 

always 
holding
the same worries
function creep of defeat
and
splintered yoke of slog

and
friday afternoon
has
its
scheduled bubble of childish comfort
its cheeky joy 
like 
fruity 
perfume
that
disguises
the 
scent of manipulated tease

please
notice
the
hot spur of determination 
the
stiletto stab of discipline 
digging 
deep
in your soft weekend flank

waking
your sleepwalk

to
more . . .

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SAD KIDS

want to find 
every
school
or
college
kid
with those downcast hiding eyes
and few friends
and pointed-in feet
all overdressed and overdone the best they can
but
with those stooped shoulders
that
just
cant
carry it off
and
all silent at home 
and in class
who
pack
defeat
with
their books in the morning
and 
tell them 
firmly and with proof
that
it
WILL
get better . . .

except
maybe
for
them 
it wont