A balloon tube twist and tie
For pooling chambers
Pumping a nutritious sea
Through veins and arteries ;
Hand-in-hand at the fringes,
Catching a breath,
Continuing a loving loop,
Swimming together .
*[ WSB ].
The Folly of Wisdom
Won’t be shifted libwards
By critical thinking ;
The Devil is tricky,
Sowing doubt with reason .
The only safe zone
Is functional illiteracy—
Sturdy without study .
*[ WSB ].
When Galaxies Die
Oceans dry up where fish used to swim,
Whole nations of culture erased from slate,
Dwarfed by darkness, songs evaporate .
Like heavy erasers beaten into the night,
They cloud the deepness with a mournful white,
A chalky nebula drifting in space,
Loosely holding shapes time tried to efface .
Galaxies pass through each other like ghosts.
Dusty ancestral memories afloat
Can coalesce from weak forces afar
And regain shimmer as a newborn star .
*[ WSB ].
Orion
Red supergiant shoulder .
Orion on bended knee
Blue, supergiant :
Giant posing suppliant—
Fluid born : sea or pee ?
Eternally outlined by Lite-Brite™ pegs,
Racing across the black construction grid
To escape the scorpion’s stinging check .
*[ WSB ].
Bar Hop
It rules out any limbo—
Just step lightly and crow
*[ WSB ].
Lapcat
My quality boy is—
Comfort expecting .
I exist as a lap,
A petter, and a
Food go-getter .
Lacking is the ape
In a restful state—
Patience testing .
Like fluid spoondrift
I shapeshift protective,
A systolic setter .
*[ WSB ].
FogCam
The fog goes out . . .
Comfort lies in a pulse
Rarely checked,
Momentary snapshots
Rarely specked—
The courtyard, and the coffee pot :
A recording routine .
*[ WSB ].
The Best Words
Absent legitimate decree,
Just Orwellian hypocrisy
Noting :
Treasonous Republican under
Mephistophelian persuasion .
*[ WSB ].
Adjudicating the Department of Justice
Rocks not the interloc
That frames the law clock
Tocking down ; and taking stock
To judge against fraudulent poppycock .
*[ WSB ].
Pyrotechnicality
Fireworks are stupid :
Consider toxins boosted,
Fingerless schoolkids,
Neighborhood pets in distress,
And post stress triggered in vets .
Fleeting the flash, blinking the bang
Down come the heavy metals crashing like rain .
*[ WSB ].