Joy and Pain

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100311

"O’ WAD SOME POWER"

Hello, again, everyone.

I am happy to report
that my 24-hour lipstick does,
in fact, adhere for the duration.

I have learned to apply it
without resorting to a mirror
and (thanks to a bulletin I received
just moments ago), I can attest that
it adheres equally well to teeth.


100310

CRAMMED

Hurry, hurry,
don’t be late!

There’s no room
to ruminate.


100309

FISHY

I only looked;
he was a winker.

When he said
we would wed,
he had me hooked—
lyin' stinker!


WHY?

"Where is the city?
I hear that it's pretty,"
the chicken asked the road.

"Several miles north,"
the road sent her forth.
But road was just trickin'
and so the plot thickens.

Why did the road
cross the chicken?


100308

MORNIN’, SUN!

Hello,
my mellow
yellow fellow!


EXERCISED

Check me out—
can anyone tell,
do you suppose?

I feel like I smell!

What?
With your nose?


100307

PEST ASIDE

Just a comment:
I haven't thought it through,
but I suspect
some awful trade's been made;
that you earn your life
by signing on
as God's assassin;
that he doesn't do his own
dirty work.


DAILY REVOCATION

from sleep sublime,
dawn pries my mind—I rise

then comes the crime—I fall
back in; back into time


100306

COMMON QUEST

to make play pay
but still stay play


100305

INCREMENTAL

Major griefs
from minor beefs—

how they load us;
those petty hurts
we never used to notice.


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