cash only

Melamine transplant

gnu lung
coughed out like a
cheap import
when I paid top $
to that guy parked
under the overpass
where they tore the
old warehouse down
parts laid out on his hood
like homegrown turnip greens
even had some
refurbished brains from former
Wall Street execs

Gnu flash

The afterlife rears its ugly head http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/04/mr-smith-makes-a-complaint/

alarm set?

in Rlyeh
servants pace silently
the bell does not ring

DN 86 at printer

Should be printed next week

Warning -- tasteless humor

Zombie in my eye

When the dead rise
the unborn dead
pelt the living with their
tiny light-weight bodies
inflicting what damage they can

they had 'em once

If
vampires are
soulless monsters then
where are their souls?

DN 86

In pasteup. Will probably go to printer Wednesday.

headline-- lunar eclipse

Principal Resigns: Moon over 70's frat party drive by


That is not lost which has e'er been snapped and seen,

And in strange searches high-school jeans may cream.

some call it professional tectonics

Dear Friend


Sell your west-coast real estate
BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!

The Americas and the
Asia-Pacific Rim will
exchange harsh words indeed,
blows even,
when they meet in just a few 100 million years.
Remember the India-Central Asia grudge match
back in the Eocene?
It wasn't pretty!!!

THIS throwdown is going to make THAT one
look like a TEA PARTY!

Now paying top dollar
for distressed property.
Sorry, CA, OR, WA only.


end

missed your call

After dozens of Ph.Ds


having been written,

innumerable students and treasure hunters

having scrabbled in the regolith

of a thousand dead worlds,

a handful of eroded lumps

(fabricated with stable heavy elements

our accelerators cannot even make)

crouch in display cases,

shaking off a billion years of cold


The end

only a game?

white knight turns coat
and kills own grandfather
metachess

getting better all the time

100th Earth Day/celebrate with green crayon/imagine sky

DN 86

Layout started. I am waiting for a couple of illos & expect to finish layout this weekend.

make no bones about it

Oracle of Norway

The troll's dice
tiny skulls chattering
about the weather
the day they died

it takes a little
meat broth or blood
to make them prognosticate

I had a spare pint
O negative
it would have to do

new flash

http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/04/everyones-a-carnivore/ -- GM people is teh funny

landfill?

gastric
teleportation surgery
it goes somewhere

jumping on the 2012 bandwagon

I hope you know I love apocalyptic poetry, so I am not entirely sheepishly announcing a special issue of dreams and nightmares. This will be the September 2011 issue. The theme of course is the end of the world as we know it. The timing is obvious, but by no means limit yourselves to Mayan mythology. Be creative. The world doesn't have to utterly end, as long as global disaster is involved one way or another.

from "The Edible Zoo"

The Aardvark


The aardvark is a curious beast,
But makes a tempting furry feast,
When dipped in chocolate or when greased,
And fried with cabbage and with leeks.

Oh aardvark! Culinary gem,
I like to nibble now and then,
On freeze-dried chips of aardvark dipped,
In cheesy spread with cognac sipped.

Or aardvark cutlets would be nice,
Laid upon a bed of rice,
And garnished with a hop-toad sushi,
Left to sit until it's mooshy.


--

A limited edition chapbook published chiefly for my nieces, nephews, & kids. Currently out of print, alas.

geeku

my thixotropic custard

squirts when Bear rocks the table

seismic shock

mass x acceleration

big-head squirrel
chooses its target with care
head-bonk eureka!

another flash from me with deities

gods, bugs, and everyday life -- http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/04/fly-away-now/

scifaiku

touch the cosmos' retreating skin

child of a young universe

an oldie

Who among us?


The speech is oppressive and leaden,
An expanse of few words,
yet these gravid, weighty,
spilling across our laps like hot stew.

The servitors are mute but eloquent:
We're not human, they seem to say,
as they move seamlessly through our lives.
They have other lives, infinitely rich, beyond our sight;
beyond our comprehension.

We, not they, are the intruders;
we, not they, vainly seek enlightenment
in the hollow night.


Reprinted from "hunger," a 1996 chapbook

Not so vicarious award

Year's best horror honorable mention: Kopaska-Merkel,David & Rathbone,Wendy“ApparitionHouse,”(poem) Star*LineJan/Feb

vicarious award brag

Wade German's poem "Golem Variant" from DN 83 received an honorable mention in Ellen Datlow's Best Horror of the Year Vol.2!

competition kills you

I'm joining the Republic of Mississippi
lower taxes,
and even though fire & police
services will take longer to get here
with the cash I save I can outsource
to Greene Coumty

An exquisite corpse - Death is not the Answer

http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/04/death-is-not-the-answer/

That was for Sunday

on the third planet
homes are considered
communal property
come home from work
to find a family of rhinoceri
eating their dinner
in the living room

buy sturdy furniture

and it was crushed of course

The Paleozoic ship
might still fly
if the unknown material
hadn't been replaced
by silica

and I'm still a mite peckish

Tyrannosaur sees the shrink

so
u 8
all them folks
cos u were hungry?
Yeah, that's about the size of it

keep your enemies closer

Almost a comfort when you think about it

Violet was an early bloomer
pretty, too
but soon she turned up everywhere
overshadowed by others, for a time
but tenacious
your worst nightmare, even
after poison ivy, dewberry
english ivy, kudzu, bamboo, cat briar
redbud, honeysuckle, those nasty trees with scaly bark
[pause for breath]

It'll never catch on at the UN

Until they fought the zombies

They took to smoking
the dried and powdered brains
of their enemies
understanding,
even appreciation, grew

flash story

mollusca uber alles! http://www.dailycabal.com/2010/04/catch-a-slug/

what, me worry...again?

On this cold world they never learned

old
soils show
pervasive
environmental
degradation led to collapse
of biosphere to procaryote* grade more than once

*e.g., bacteria

Atlas gets laid off by science

Atlas holds up
the dome tent
till Aphrodite wakes
"Never mind, baby," she says,
"you'll find work again."
She pulls him down
loves him
fries potatoes and eggs for breakfast.
He naps then and she
tweets
"Camping in the mountains with new bf. One word:
titanic!"

whe a staff writer for the Daily Blab

DN 86

I have everything; time to start putting it together.

Kids! Don't look!

bat wings cover

a myriad cthonic teats

nightgaunts feed

who goes next?

Kalpa of the Hexapod



Iron bugs pose, stern,

eclipsing each day with

shadow sweeps children

bouncing balls and scooping jacks

as airfish rise, their

iridescent nebulosity

facing, blown back by

an iron breeze

zeppelin gliding in from the

west, its self-important name

tribute to something

but the children, jacks scattered

hands clapping

legs jump jump jumping

wing cases clattering

aunties are home



end

Take that, Wilson!

Now it's our turn

here
just here
the new masters took hold
held sway for millennia
to judge by the
layer's thickness
then the ants.

but the interfacing stings

upgrading hurts
but it's totally worth it
new legs work great

a lonely life

stuck between your
pages I hold your place
flesh wins out