040321b

 

lobes

extruded from my flesh

all the faces

030821b

 

picking seeds from my teeth

one I missed is already growing in my gut

when it blooms

rose petals will follow

wherever I go

021521c

 

ancient ships

brought us from the home world

they're pitted, some tumbled

we don't need them now

we've learned to fly

020521c

 

Stalked by the celeroids, Dr. Frankenveg quickly came to rue his latest gene-manipulation experiment.

091920c

 

Sewing A New Head

On the scarecrow

she's screaming and yelling

at the crows

who still sit on her shoulders

whispering insults in her ears

pecking at her like she’s

kernel corn, which is

meanwhile growing fast

knee-high, waist high

taller than the trees

ears bigger than watermelons

swelling fat under the

burning summer sun

I'm getting out of here

before they start to pop

 

072220b

mammoths grown

using fossil DNA

T. rex next

calling for preorders

Disney World licks its lips

070520

calcified leaves

picked before they fall

asphalt's too dear

052020d

No prison would hold him. Goat boy could eat anything.

042720

the next year

mutant rats outscored

humans on the SATs

when the news broke

the bounty tripled

too little, too late

the last humans

brought top dollar

at The Fresh Market

041820b

choosing a kitten
how many legs or eyes
or none at all

041620c

new people
grow organs like weeds
my roommate's spare head

041220b

The new genes jumped readily to ungulates, but only the goats truly benefited. Nothing was safe from their osmium teeth.

122219b

asparagus infected with a deadly native strain
it goes down good but soon takes root and blossoms forth again

102219c

bacteria finally got a handle
on the plastic crisis
the oceans get more pure every day
critters are healthier
the landscape cleaner
but things have started disintegrating
on store shelves
within every building, playground, car
and now eyeglasses, contacts,
pace-makers, subcutaneous pumps
almost everything is plastic now

101619c

photosynthesis is fine
but you have to stay outdoors
and shave all over once a week in summer
then you're bald all winter

092619d

These sunflowers only yield one seed apiece, but a single flower will feed a family of four for more than a week. Thank God for GMO!

092419

flunked for cheating

his second head whispered

answers in his ear

091819c

self-cleaning floors
the mutation spread quickly
every room was empty

090919

tailored bugs built to
suck metals from the landfills
dude, where's my car?

090519

Elephant-mammoth hybrids
surviving mammoth DNA
spliced into elephant chromosomes
gestated by poor mother elephants
whose ugly ducklings will never fit in
with the herd