Cut the legs off your pants

& now, you have shorts.

But, friend,

have you noticed?

You now have two

Abraham Lincoln hats, too

I think much of

what we know about,

the Flintstones,

is based on conjecture

The tooth fairy

knows when a child has lost a tooth

by their ability

to sniff out

mouth-blood

q. When will trefology pass the surly bonds of our solar system?

I remember when

all the lights went out,

due to an unpaid electricity bill.

All my sister & I

could find in the house

were birthday candles.

But each time my mom would light one, 

one of us would make a wish

& blow it out. 

II.

Mom got angry & told us to sing a song instead,

so we sang happy birthday to the dark

III.

For the price of a lotto ticket

you could buy a box of

birthday candles.

That twelve wishes.

Twelve chances to win money.

Maybe from the lotto.

If you had played.

If we return to earth

each lifetime,

to improve upon our previous self,

I really should be better

at juggling than I am.

II.

And I can just barely use chopsticks.

For ease & speed

I alphabetised all my files 

under

F for files

In that way I have rendered 

all other letter tabs unnecessary, 

except for p & h,

because together,

— they spell philes, too —

Were you aware that ‘abominable’

in ‘abominable snowman’

means, causing moral revulsion?

To me that seems excessive,

for, while I may be frightened

of the idea of a giant snowman,

what he does in the privacy

of his own ice cave is

all right with me.