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  • “Justice Legal”

    This weekend my 5-year old asked: “wouldn’t it be funny if ‘Justice League’ was ‘Justice Legal’”?
    Like it was some hit ABC show, where big-city super heroes
    practice the law wearing costumes.
    Never using their super powers
    just, you know
    arguing the case
    fighting over turf
    falling in love in spandex.
    Flash is bucking to make partner.
    And maybe Batman is the D.A.

  • Dark Blue

    The car was a used Chrysler LeBaron convertible
    parked just around the corner.
    Dark blue and dented, it had lived
    a bumpy life.
    They got in and Cal started the engine.
    And when he shifted, the car rumbled
    and fought back, and to Greg,
    it felt like Cal was shifting something
    inside Greg’s ass cheeks.

  • Too much pee

    If you find yourself
    stepping on the scale after peeing
    well,
    that’s not a good sign.

  • Signify

    I signed a lot of stuff today
    and I don’t mean to brag
    but no.
    I do.
    It was the way
    I curved that capital “C” in Cecil.
    and looped the “l.”
    My graceful scoop.
    The pen’s hurled weight.
    Like I was piloting
    a space plane
    made of jet black ink.

  • Projector

    He projects things on her
    like she’s a drive-in movie.
    He plays whole movies on her.

  • I’ll draw the hair

    If we’re all drawing a face together
    I don’t want to draw the mouth.
    I’ll draw the hair —
    just lines, loose and easy.
    Or the eyes.
    But not the lips.
    The way they curve and join
    and hold back
    her teeth.
    Don’t make me draw the lips.

  • Clown shoes

    I found this spam comment on a friend’s site yesterday (minus the line breaks). I’ve swapped out the thing they were selling and replaced it with “clown shoes” because, well, I don’t want to sell their stuff.
    But I loved this spam comment. And I thought you might too:
    “Clown Shoes said…
    Have you seen
    any information
    on personalized baby clown shoes?
    I just have
    not had the best results
    when blog surfing today.
    Anywho
    back to my endless search
    for personalized
    clown shoes.”

  • Lost

    Forgot an old friend's name tonight. I
thought it was "David Shapiro,
of Kansas" but it's not, is it?
It's something else, something
equally
common
unsearchable.
Or maybe it is?
    Lordy lordy I've
lost all
confidence.

  • Tuscan holiday

    Everything is black and white here.
    They shine bright lights on us and shout
    “Passports? ID? What is your country?”
    We moan and
    claw at our eyes with fingers
    cracked and crooked.
    Sometimes the light is swung about and
    I think I see a form, stout — squat — three arms?
    This is Florence. They
    speak English here too.

  • Devil

    What our crazy neighbor said to my wife the other night
    not realizing that my wife is
    “the woman before you”
    and that we’d recently fixed the porch light,
    she said:
    “I’m glad you’re here
    because the woman
    before you
    was a devil
    they lived in darkness
    and you know about darkness.”