Month: May 2024
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Spicy Dinner
I dunk my face in the sauce béarnaise Basted in gravy I half-glazed my face Eyes like crying at the spices, ask was I maced Point to the peppers, easy on them go Trying to beat last best Scoville score They are pale but the Scoville Scale Lists eight zeroes, enough to peel paint Peppers…
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Sightings
I’m still in shock When someone asks, “Are these Thylacine pictures doctored?” Confetti confetti Better yet set a conference We’ve found the Yeti This sub isn’t ready, stay subbed Another grifter, book deal at the ready The comment section steadily Turns against him Text Seti Tell them suck it All their CERN-learning Bunch of Vernon…
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Congo Snake Picture
Been reading about it since a sprog, Strontium Dog days when I was eight Lying awake nights wondering is the Congo Snake picture real Remembering hearing about that on Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World A colonel from Belgium like an hero poked his camera out of the helicopter Managed to cop a photograph of something…
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Nights now the world is over
I’ll give to the bag for life It lasted longer than ninety percent of the people I met in my life Well worth it for the price Clouds like a 99 in a sunless sky, entry of a shadowed century Its sentry a wounded moon, sent here to keep us stationary These are nights now…
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A sense of subtext
Her swan hand banded with opal and topaz, straddled a gilt carafe Her neck like a pale giraffe emeralds green as glass glinting like egyptian caskets Elastics fasten her hair into exotic fashions, her architect an artist of passions Her tacit manner, a taciturn mná, she is hewn with many facets Even the bold are…
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