Saturday, April 14, 2007

Shaving Ruminations

Yes, good morning dear!
You know, I think of you every morning:
Everytime I consider whether I need a shave I remember when you said
with so much absolutness:
"You should shave every day!"

But my beard is a tropical plant:
A walla full of December rice.
It needs sunshine and high temperatures
to rise beyond a stubble.
Shaving in these northern climes
is like gleaning.

Friday, April 13, 2007

T. Rex Soup for the Soul

T. Rex: They finally did it!
Pulled collagens from some ancient bones
(All 65 million years of them in Montana)
Boiled them up, and hey presto!
Chicken soup!
Dinosaurs are, after all, like birds.
And frogs.
A hypothesis becomes a theory
For all brave scientists.
And for T. Macbeth
Eye of newt and tongue of frog
To keep the virulence at bay,
Fight the seasonal flus and coughs
On the molecular battleground
Thundering across Gondwanaland:
Today no virus can manifest its presence with THAT roar!

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

You remove me from the experience of the moment;
Into the past.
Doused like dirty laundry in a soup of sudsy water
We deny each other our lives.