Heeeeere’s Johnny:




All NaPoWriMo and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All nap-oh Rhyme-oh and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All nah, poor eye moe and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All nape ore I’m ‘oh and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All nay poe rime eau and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All neigh pull ride mowers and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All ney palm rye mow and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All napalm writhe mode and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All napalm writhe mode at play makes Johnny a skull toy.




Diffidence



I have a mouth full of nothing 
and a head full of dust. 

Nothing should be louder than it has to be. 
Really, it needs to be louder than it is. 

Necessity and practicality 
are form following function 
into the depths;
need needlessly preceding 
actuation and utilization. 

The permutations of 
"the devil is in the permutations" are 
the unforeseen repercussions: 
unknown reverberations in an empty cave;
the avalanche of order becoming apparent chaos;
noise from melody; cacophony from creaking polyphony; 
the Greek leading the Latin into the vulgar, 
that bastardization of language, that melting pot of forms;
the fomenting cauldron of lack and happenstance and opportunity;
the operational operetta of oedipal angst; 
an open ordering of opposites.  

First impressions matter most 
when most impressive matters 
are pressingly foremost. 

The arbitrary etiquette of knife-fork-and-spoon placement 
is everything.

Make up your mind.  
Make it matter. 
Make it matter for molding. 
Make it moist. 
Wake up your most important matters 
and get them to the breakfast table, 
that familiar chameleon mending its ways, 
that chameleon familiar wending its maze 
and by-ways and highways, 
dodging the bullet, fitting the profile-- 
diaphanous, diffident, and alone.  

It has filled my head with holes; 
hollow testimony to my self-abuse, 
my self-neglect and my amputated ego.





...puttin' the Po in NaPoWriMo...

the wheel





no matter how hard the turn 
i will not let go
forever	

the wheel will not let go ever
and i will not burn
spark or glow

dazzle, cascade or bellow		
shiver in fever		
alms to earn 

the price to learn	
the price to know
for heart and mind to sever





...puttin' the Po' in NaPoWriMo...

Missing (part 1)

[from a series I have been working on]




How many times did you wake up
in the night, find an empty cup
and wonder where your mind used to
be, your self alone and just you
in the bed, and just the one bed
with unfamiliar sheets, your head
on a strangely scented pillow?

I would have brought her there, you know,
for you to hold, and not for me.
You needed her more.  I can see
that now.  I would have stood close by,
just a ways, and averted my
gaze; let you have your time alone
as I tried not to turn to stone.







...no, I'm not "Missing part 1"...
...this is "part 1 of 'Missing'"...
...puttin' the Po' in NaPoWriMo...