the artificial monk goes about:
– the rites of lunch
– the rattled tribulation
– the amen certification
– the trifold undulation
– the oath of nothing is upon us
The rites of lunch
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story of eve
Her hungry cat nagging at her feet, Eve applies lipstick in her bathroom mirror before getting dressed for work
During rush hour after polishing off her ice coffee from Slave to the Grind, she applies lipstick in her tropical turquoise classic Mustang, which carries a few dings but is in otherwise impressive shape Continue reading
Accumulated words & phrases
Alterection
Rattled function
—
Do Simon & Garfunkel
collect royalty fees
on the word “dappled”?
What about “organdy”
and “crinoline”?
—
The I-do-I duality
—
Lazybee
By the trailhead
She left her new shoes
by the trailhead
atop caked mud,
immaculate burgundy pumps
standing upright
near the base of a pin oak.
Just past the restroom breezeway,
the anonymous message in wobbly
cursive was etched
with jagged glass
or blunt rock,
officials suspected.
A girl on a nearby
swing spoke with playmates
during the investigation,
gripping the chains
and pumping her bare legs
while leaning back
to attain altitude,
her feet stretching skyward,
her body awash in sunlight
and silhouettes.
Amorous scraps from my notebook
attractive young chick in craigslist want-ad pic,
the older man pounced on his keyboard
in stab at casual encounters
—
Middle age men
at bookstore eye
20-something Asian
girl wearing sexy pout
snug summer dress
omg sagging spaghetti strap!
Web surfing w/ latte
spotlight on her
slender + bronze
left shoulder
still unfixed when
walking to restroom
like mermaid or carousing
flapper or Morticia Addams
on way to boudoir
—
“Meat the staff” link on
Las Vegas hair salon’s website,
clandestine language
for illicit brothel services
Vertebral obsession
Vertebrae
Vertebrate
Vertebra
Vertebral bodies
Vertebral column, aka backbone
Vertebrae in the vertebral column
Saintly hand
Apply the adjective
“terrifying”
to
The Supernatural
I mean the religious term
Master of the World
:: SQUARED ::
— a wild-eyed man,
he indulges in
The Average Human
with a saintly
hand inside his coat
36-inch-wide heavy linen
just yardage for required
hiding slightly.
Itemizing
I drank my energy bill
in coffee,
read my Internet fee
page by page in bed
and swallowed my car bill
at the dining room table
Soul decay & other tidbits
across the way is off for the duration,
but there was no finale
—
a soul is prone to lintballing
—
cotton-haired mama steering a yacht
during a Sunday tipover
