SOME INTERMEDIATE ANSWERS
for Tony Frazer
RHYME
Writer to reader.
“If people don’t like me
they can leave me alone.”
Time served.
CIVILIZATION
Promises find the future where they left it.
The state delivers a clean accident.
The executioner goes home for lunch.
All rights reserved.
SCHEMATIC
Try to opportune between words.
One motive leads to another.
Guilt designs crime.
Police fill the cracks.
THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
The sun explodes;philosophy endures.
Detectives ask, “what are we missing?”
“Get it right,” answers the open grave.
No one wants to do this all night.
VESUVIUS
Here comes another paradigm shift.
Form is not a fact.
Spit and rinse.
Who has time for eternity?
FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
Terror. Pause. Lunch. Repeat.
Neglect makes us new again.
Thank you, dear audience.
Nowhere so immediate or necessary.
CAN I HEAR AN AMEN?
Pre-owned merchandise for
team sports refunded.
Signs replace their referents.
You figure it out.
JOHN DOE
Data – analysis – action.
Christmas on earth.
No apologies.
Never now, at last.
FOUR STRONG WINDS
A circle inseparable
from its enclosure.
My country
by contrast.
SUNDAY
Creation stages
its own destruction.
This space available.
Free parking.
for Tony Frazer
RHYME
Writer to reader.
“If people don’t like me
they can leave me alone.”
Time served.
CIVILIZATION
Promises find the future where they left it.
The state delivers a clean accident.
The executioner goes home for lunch.
All rights reserved.
SCHEMATIC
Try to opportune between words.
One motive leads to another.
Guilt designs crime.
Police fill the cracks.
THE END OF THE 20TH CENTURY
The sun explodes;philosophy endures.
Detectives ask, “what are we missing?”
“Get it right,” answers the open grave.
No one wants to do this all night.
VESUVIUS
Here comes another paradigm shift.
Form is not a fact.
Spit and rinse.
Who has time for eternity?
FOR ALL THE RIGHT REASONS
Terror. Pause. Lunch. Repeat.
Neglect makes us new again.
Thank you, dear audience.
Nowhere so immediate or necessary.
CAN I HEAR AN AMEN?
Pre-owned merchandise for
team sports refunded.
Signs replace their referents.
You figure it out.
JOHN DOE
Data – analysis – action.
Christmas on earth.
No apologies.
Never now, at last.
FOUR STRONG WINDS
A circle inseparable
from its enclosure.
My country
by contrast.
SUNDAY
Creation stages
its own destruction.
This space available.
Free parking.