Friday, March 18, 2022

what what


by bofa xesjum



charlie underwood inhaled the heavy karma of victorian litigation as the boys ducked into the doorway .

professor george armstrong mckinley appeared with an empty bag.

just put the gold bars in the corner outside in the forest, the professor told charlie. strange things can only be imagined, he added.

a quickwitted youth, charlie had left his friend’s house to attend the king’s funeral in the red dawn.

very softly, with expectations just under the liberally defined border of defiance , a yammering was heard.

darn it! charlie exclaimed,

*

i very much prefer to go as native as the algorithms make me, the archbishop told jonathan.

perhaps some happy corrections can be quietly recorded - nothing salacious, only friends may comment, jonathon offered.

until the towers tremble at whitsuntide, the joke will be on the high-faluting nihilists who conceded the republic of the night to the underbelly of the laughing maneaters of the empire, the archbishop replied tartly.

inquire into it at your leisure, he added.

perhaps a total exhumation of the junior branch of the victorious party will divert a little of the fury of the barbarian yokels, jonathon countered.

the quasi-serious lackeys of the commission behaved as if the right to hauteur foreclosed their witlessness, the avchbishop insisted.

*

later that evening, in their favorite low dive, charlie and jonathon could not agree on a plan.

charlie blamed it on the archbishop, and thought jonathon should take a firmer approach with him.



Thursday, March 10, 2022

the spinners


by bofa xesjum



if a wolf was a cow it would not howl in the desert

if a cat was a refrigerator it would not chase a mouse

if an elephant was a cheeseburger it would not knock over a tree

the wolf, the cow, the desert, the cat, the refrigerator, the mouse, the elephant, the tree, and the cheeseburger are all out there.

because they are all the same

and all have a story to tell

all the same and all different

all the same and all doing different things

spinning and spinning

dancing in the sunshine

dancing in the dark

but you do not care

you do not want to hear their stories

and maybe they do not want to hear yours

but then again maybe they do

who knows?

you never know who might be interested in what



Tuesday, March 1, 2022

gatorade


by bofa xesjum



gatorade keeps on expanding
and does not ask permission of the vacuum cleaner

it runs on juice,
not on oxygen, you fools


If the gatorade’s arrogance is noted
inspectors will march in the streets against it

sometimes it lacks belligerence
in which case the inspectors’ reports will be shredded


if its citrusy undertaste is appropriated ,
street sweepers will sit by the river and weep.


the seeds of the dextrose are scattered throughout the galaxy,
and the concert goers write in the margins of their programs

the ushers wear red berets and black bow ties;
they only drink their gatorade with ice cubes

therefore, the leader of the ushers union says :
it is only by rolling under the futon that i live for another day


the gator is a harsh master, demanding and prophesying sucrose
doing nothing, and yet, water and oxygen are reluctant siblings


the ice cube in the gatorade is silent,
and yet the citrus seeds and the concrete alike forget their manners

when the shopping cart flies by

propelled by an invisible wind

the ice cubes and the gatorade dissolve
and yet the glass is full