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Warning – slippery surface

Did it!

Wrote 31 poems for October for the Crisis Chronicles Press project featuring Mary E. Weems, Shelley Chernin, Dawn Shepler Shimp, John Swain, Steve Brightman, John Burroughs, Lady K, and me. This is going to be an interesting book when it comes out since we’re all such different poets.

The Not O.K. Corral

If my name were Who
and I knocked at your door
and you called “Who’s there?”
and I replied “Right”
what would you do?

I mean the O.K. Corral might have been okay
for Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday say
but not so okay if you look
Claiborne, Clanton, McLaury’s way
(30 shots, 30 seconds, 6 feet apart, 3 guys gone)

I believe Guantanamo is male,
whereas Guantanamera is female . . .
though I’m too poor for a parasite,
can only afford a single site.

Our new lies are 17% more factual than our old lies.

The Princess had no pea
so I offered her my rumpled foreskin.

Whoa mama,
better get that skitter tied down
before it departs.

Coco Chanel never wore flannel.
Though women wear falsies, men wear false he’s.

Is the plural of men menses?

Lady was bargaining with me
so I called her a Berber woman
as did the Berber vendor in Morocco
when she bargained him below her original offer.
She told me, “No, I’m not cold at all,
but if you keep pummeling me with puns,
I’m going to need a punbrella.”

Life is hard, and then you climax.

Wanted for unrest – the Coffee Kid.
I’m serving time in the plenum-tentiary.
My odds are getting odder,
especially from the otters,
not to mention others.

I dye lemma, for I am my own lexeme.
All godz chillun gots problems.

Ah yes, the lesser of evils . . .
could be a business opportunity here
for if I had two evils
and rented them by the hour,
I’d be the leaser of two evils.

Hello weirdness my old friend
I’d welcome you back again,
but you never left.

The United Mutations of Smith now in session,
the Irreverend me presiding.

Take your time.
No hurry.
Heal.
Be well.
Sorry bout the broken bits.

– Smith, 10.31.2013


hope u had a good time – fotosmith

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